Republicans may also seize on Biden's remarks to challenge his effort to issue student debt relief.
It could threaten student debt relief and future coronavirus-related health funding.
The remarks suggesting that the emergency has ended may jeopardize twin goals of the Biden administration on student debt relief and coronavirus aid.
Part of Biden's legal rationale for providing $10,000 in student debt relief per borrower rests on the lingering pandemic.
But some supporters of debt relief don't see it quite that way.