Biden Administration: National COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate is ‘Not Under Consideration at This Time’

The White House on Friday said President Joe Biden and other top administration officials aren’t considering a national COVID-19 vaccine mandate “at this time.”

“A national vaccine requirement is not under consideration at this time. That’s where we are with that,” deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said at a press briefing at the White House on Friday.

Biden was asked a question by a reporter about whether states and municipalities should adopt a COVID-19 vaccine mandate, to which he replied: “I don’t know that yet,” triggering speculation that the federal government may be concocting a policy.

“I’d like to see them continue to move in that direction, and that’s why I point it out. I had asked the Justice Department to determine whether that is — they’re able to do that legally, and they can,” Biden said, without providing details. “Local communities can do that. Local businesses can do that. It’s still a question whether the federal government can mandate the whole country. I don’t know that yet.”

How such a policy would be implemented isn’t clear.

Some major corporations have demanded their employees get vaccinated against COVID-19 by a certain date or be terminated, or at the very least, forced to wear masks, undergo routine testing, and engage in social distancing. Some businesses, meanwhile, have said that customers who enter their buildings must provide proof of vaccination.

Vaccine passport-style systems have been near-universally panned by Republican elected officials, civil liberties groups, and even the World Health Organization.

Biden on Thursday said that the federal government will push its employees to get the vaccine, but the U.S. Postal Service union has opposed the mandate.

Biden let it slip.

Indeed, but the commies that run our government know what they are doing. They still have to worry about 100 million ornery Americans with guns, so they are trying to ratchet down on all of us without triggering the first shots (until they are certain they have the upper hand). A national COVID mandate would absolutely, 100%, result in people getting shot. So, they reined in their senile old dog and said "Not yet. Not yet."

“Does the Federal Government even have the authority to do that? Seems likely to me that they do not.”

The Democrats have whatever authority their courts say they have.

And once conservatives understand that, they’ll also start to understand the differences between RINOs and Democrats.

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