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Breaking: U.S. Senate Votes to Repeal President Biden’s Vaccine Mandate For Large Employers


Here we are, yet again, with another late breaking development in the evening.  At this rate, breaking news is becoming a pattern, at least two days in a row.

Earlier this evening, the U.S. Senate voted 52 - 48 to repeal President Joe Biden’s coronavirus vaccine mandate for large scale employers (those with at least 100 employees.)  As readers might recall, Democrats have a slim majority control of the Senate.  While the Senate is split 50 - 50, Vice President Kamala Harris serves as the tie breaking vote. Therefore, as readers might have guessed by this point, two Democratic Senators joined with Republicans and voted to repeal the mandate.  Those two Senators?  Joe Manchin from West Virginia and Jon Tester from Montana. 

Now for those who live and breath these coronavirus vaccine mandates, I caution you that tonight’s vote likely does not mean much in the long run.  Even though the Senate voted to repeal this mandate, the House would still need to approve the legislation (which likely will not happen as Democrats, who have majority control of the House, should have enough votes to defeat it...if it ever even made it to a vote.)  Assuming the House somehow voted to repeal the mandate, President Biden would likely veto the legislation.  If/when that happened, there are not enough votes to override the veto.

As a result, tonight’s vote might all be for naught.  If readers recall, this vaccine mandate has already been stayed in court.  Assuming that works its way through the court system (and maybe gets to the U.S. Supreme Court), the courts themselves might end this (and other) vaccine mandates without Congress needing to do anything.

Regardless, this is a breaking story worth highlighting...and yet another thorn in the side of the Biden Administration’s attempts to have the vaccine mandates remain in place.


For additional information:  https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.foxbusiness.com/politics/senate-votes-repeal-biden-federal-vaccine-mandate-businesses.amp

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