New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, a Democrat, lifted the statewide mask mandate for indoor public spaces on Thursday, joining a trend of blue-state governors pulling back pandemic restrictions.

Grisham’s unexpected move to lift the mask mandate weeks ahead of schedule comes on the tail end of the wave of blue-state governors doing so. Republican governors, such as Florida's Ron DeSantis and Texas's Greg Abbott, have spurned such measures since early in the pandemic, arguing they were not justified and were harmful even before the omicron variant hit.


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