Finally, even Democratic governors are starting to ignore the plainly political dictates of the Centers for Disease Control, which is still insisting that everyone mask up.

New Jersey’s Phil Murphy, Connecticut’s Ned Lamont, California’s Gavin Newsom, Oregon’s Kate Brown and others have announced ends to all mask mandates. Even New York’s Kathy Hochul dropped hers for everyone but schoolchildren, and she may catch up before her neighboring state’s school rules actually change at month’s end.

Mind you, the school mandates should’ve been gone long ago. Other states that dropped them never saw ill effect, and Europe was never this cruel.

Indeed, there was never any real scientific basis for making kids mask, though the science wasn’t crystal-clear at the pandemic’s start. But it’s clearly the power of teachers unions that kept the US mask rules going, and kept far too many schools closed long after that mistake was evident.

The Biden White House, sadly, even ordered CDC Director Rochelle Walensky to reverse her earlier position and toe the union line. Expect lots of hearings on this if Republicans retake the House this fall.

Indeed, Congress needs to thoroughly vet the CDC’s failures all pandemic long, under a Republican president as well as a Democrat.

Only last month, the CDC basically admitted that cloth masks are worthless. Other screw-ups these last two years include insisting on the use only of its own test kits (which proved faulty) as COVID first hit, flipping its mask advice and saying the vaccinated can’t transmit COVID.

And the Food and Drug Administration has had its own massive failings. Congress needs to give America public-health authorities it can trust. We don’t have them now.