{"id":1097849,"date":"2021-12-08T09:29:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T14:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1097849"},"modified":"2021-12-08T09:29:03","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T14:29:03","slug":"moderate-democrats-begin-to-waver-on-vaccine-mandates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/moderate-democrats-begin-to-waver-on-vaccine-mandates\/","title":{"rendered":"Moderate Democrats Begin to Waver on Vaccine Mandates"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmoderate-democrats-begin-to-waver-on-vaccine-mandates%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1097849&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/50505676361_306884a620_o-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">As President Biden\u2019s vaccine mandate suffers legal smackdown after legal smackdown, moderate Democrats have begun to question if they are the best policy.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailynews.cc\/articles\/what-is-on-your-radar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Daily News in Greenville<\/a>,&nbsp;Michigan, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) expressed concern that vaccine mandates like the one proposed by Biden could lead to a dearth of government employees at the state level.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re an employer too, the state of Michigan is,\u201d Whitmer said on Monday.\u201dI know if that mandate happens, we\u2019re going to lose state employees. That\u2019s why I haven\u2019t proposed a mandate at the state level. Some states have. We have not. We\u2019re waiting to see what happens in court.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whitmer expressing skepticism on vaccine mandates is no small feat, considering that she <a href=\"https:\/\/detroit.chalkbeat.org\/2021\/9\/22\/22688631\/whitmer-questions-constitutionality-of-vaccine-and-mask-mandate-ban-michigan-budget\">actively pushed<\/a> mask mandates even as the state\u2019s Republican legislature pushed back.<\/p>\n<p>Just this week, Democrat Sen. Jon Tester of Montana, a state that heavily favored President Trump, indicated that he will vote along with Republicans to nullify Biden\u2019s mandate,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not crazy about mandates,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/584771-second-senate-democrat-to-back-vote-against-biden-vaccine-mandate\">Tester told <\/a>NBC News on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Tester later told The Hill that the senator is \u201cinclined to vote for the CRA resolution\u201d sponsored by Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/584771-second-senate-democrat-to-back-vote-against-biden-vaccine-mandate\">announced<\/a> last week that he does \u201cnot support any government vaccine mandate on private businesses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do not support any government vaccine mandate on private businesses. That\u2019s why I have cosponsored and will strongly support a bill to overturn the federal government vaccine mandate for private businesses,\u201d Manchin&nbsp;said.<\/p>\n<p>Manchin voted against Sen. Mike Lee\u2019s (R-UT) amendment to prohibit federal funding for the implementation of Biden\u2019s vaccine mandate because he did not want to risk a government shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration suffered yet another legal blow on Tuesday when a federal judge issued an injunction striking down the vaccine mandate for federal contractors, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/07\/federal-judge-blocks-biden-administrations-vaccine-mandate-for-federal-contractors\/\">arguing<\/a> that the plaintiffs are \u201clikely [to]&nbsp;succeed in their claim that the President exceeded the authorization given to him by Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Judge Stan Baker wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"8\">\n<p>The Court acknowledges the tragic toll that the COVID-19 pandemic has wrought throughout the nation and the globe. However, even in time of crisis this Court must preserve the rule of law and ensure that all branches of government act within the bounds of their constitutionally granted authorities.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Last week, another federal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/30\/federal-judge-blocks-bidens-vaccine-mandate-for-u-s-healthcare-workers\/\">judge issued<\/a> a preliminary injunction against his national vaccine mandate for healthcare workers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As President Biden\u2019s vaccine mandate suffers legal smackdown after legal smackdown, moderate Democrats have begun to question if they are the best policy. Speaking to\u00a0the Daily News in Greenville,\u00a0Michigan, Gov. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1097849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1097849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1097849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1097849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1097849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}