After President Joe Biden announced a federal vaccine mandate that is expected to affect more than 100 million Americans, Republican officials vowed to fight back.
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After President Joe Biden announced a federal vaccine mandate that is expected to affect more than 100 million Americans, Republican officials vowed to fight back. The Biden administration mandated vaccination Sept.9 for all federal employees and contractors, as well as all employees at businesses with 100 or more workers. If a business fails to comply, it could face fines of over $13,000 per violation. Here are the states who have promised to take action against the administration. Alaska Republican Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy said that his “administration is aggressively identifying every tool at our disposal” to fight back against Biden’s mandate, The Associated Press reported. He referred to the vaccine requirement as “ill conceived, divisive, and un-American” and said that “forced medical procedures run counter to our collective sense of fairness and liberty.” Arizona became the first state to sue the administration over vaccine mandates. The complaint, which was filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court of Arizona, stated that the vaccine mandate is unconstitutional because the same requirements do not apply to migrants crossing the southern border. “The federal government cannot force people to get the COVID-19 vaccine,” Republican Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich said in a statement.
