U.S. Senate set to pass resolution to nullify Biden vaccine mandate

Bipartisan rejection would be further political blow as courts halt president's rules

By Art Moore
Published December 8, 2021 at 10:59am

President Biden at the White House on Sept. 24, 2021, reacts to the accusation that Border Patrol agents on horseback whipped Haitian illegal immigrants (Screenshot by NowThisNews, via Twitter)

With at least two Democratic votes, the Senate is poised to pass a resolution nullifying President Biden's vaccine mandate for large private employers.

A vote could take place as early as Wednesday on the resolution, which is supported by Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Jon Tester of Montana, along with all 50 Republican senators, the Hill reported.

Several federal courts have halted Biden's mandates. A federal appeals court in New Orleans has suspended the private-employer requirement. On Tuesday, a federal court in Georgia said the president's vaccine requirement for federal contractors exceeded his authority. Last week, a court blocked a requirement that most health-care workers get vaccinated.

The Congressional Review Act established a fast-track process in the Senate that allows the minority party to force a vote on a resolution to disapprove of a federal rule. However, the House does not have a fast-track process, and the Senate's passage of the resolution will set up a battle between the chambers, The Hill said.

Republicans plan to circulate a discharge petition to force House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to schedule a vote on the resolution.

Sen. Mike Braun, R-Ind., told The Hill there's a good chance House Republicans will get enough signatures to force the vote.

Every Republican would sign the petition, he said, "so I think we just need five or six Democrats over there."

He pointed out there are 30 Democrats "in swing districts that are going to have to" take a hard look at signing the discharge petition.

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Biden is expected to veto the resolution if it passes both the Senate and House. But Braun argues the president's vaccine mandate would suffer a major political blow if bipartisan majorities in both chambers vote to overturn it.

Only 14% of employed Americans support firing workers who refuse to get vaccinated, according to an Axios-Ipsos poll published in late November. However, a Wall Street Journal poll released Tuesday showed that voters overall are split, with 50% saying they favor the private mandate, while 47% are opposed.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Last year, America's doctors, nurses and paramedics were celebrated as frontline heroes battling a fearsome new pandemic. Today, under Joe Biden, tens of thousands of these same heroes are denounced as rebels, conspiracy theorists, extremists and potential terrorists. Along with massive numbers of police, firemen, Border Patrol agents, Navy SEALs, pilots, air-traffic controllers, and countless other truly essential Americans, they're all considered so dangerous as to merit termination, their professional and personal lives turned upside down due to their decision not to be injected with the experimental COVID vaccines. Biden’s tyrannical mandate threatens to cripple American society – from law enforcement to airlines to commercial supply chains to hospitals. It's already happening. But the good news is that huge numbers of "yesterday’s heroes" are now fighting back – bravely and boldly. The whole epic showdown is laid out as never before in the sensational October issue of WND's monthly Whistleblower magazine, titled "THE GREAT AMERICAN REBELLION: 'We will not comply!' COVID-19 power grab ignites bold new era of national defiance."

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