{"id":1777804,"date":"2022-12-16T12:14:08","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T17:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1777804"},"modified":"2022-12-16T12:18:26","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T17:18:26","slug":"bidens-military-vax-mandate-overturned-in-defense-spending-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-military-vax-mandate-overturned-in-defense-spending-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden&#8217;s Military Vax Mandate Overturned in Defense Spending Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Fbidens-military-vax-mandate-overturned-in-defense-spending-bill%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=1777804&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\/2022\/12\/original_Biden_Vax.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>                On Thursday, the Senate approved an $858 billion military policy <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/breaking-house-passes-bill-to-end-vaccine-mandates-for-military-personnel-in-defense-package\">bill<\/a> that included a <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/breaking-gop-to-block-military-funding-bill-unless-bidens-vaccine-mandate-reversed\">provision<\/a> putting an end to the controversial Covid-19 vaccination mandate forced upon troops by the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p>The annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/117th-congress\/house-bill\/7900\">National Defense Authorization Act<\/a>, which has been given the green light without fail since 1961, passed with an overwhelming bipartisan majority of 83-11.\u00a0It now moves to the president&#8217;s desk for signature, though his administration has repeatedly said the decision to reverse the policy is a mistake.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve been very clear on what we saw happen with the vaccine mandate basically being removed from the NDAA,&#8221; White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/watch-karine-jean-pierre-says-lifting-military-vaccine-mandate-is-a-mistake\">said<\/a> earlier this month, adding that the administration thought it was &#8220;a mistake.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She went on to attack Republicans in the Senate, suggesting they&#8217;d &#8220;rather fight against the health and wellbeing of our troops than protecting them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Defending the decision, Sen. Rick Scott explained that a reversal of the mandate was actually in the best interest of troops.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I took shots when I was in the Navy,&#8221; Scott said, &#8220;but I don&#8217;t remember one shot I took that had the significant health concerns this has, or something that came up so quickly that there was mandates on it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He then listed the potential health concerns and religious concerns associated with enforcing such a mandate, urging people to &#8220;acknowledge that our military men and women have rights, not just our Commander in Chief.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/12\/15\/us\/politics\/defense-bill-vaccine-mandate-senate.html?amp%3BreferringSource=articleShare&#038;smid=nytcore-ios-share\">New York Times<\/a> reports, during negotiations Republicans remained steadfast in their desire to see the mandate lifted, with <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/kevin-mccarthy-says-military-vaccine-mandate-will-end-or-defense-budget-wont-move-forward\">Rep. Kevin McCarthy<\/a> leading the charge.<\/p>\n<p>While their wish was granted, they failed to convince their Democratic colleagues to include a separate provision introduced by Sens. Ted Cruz and Ron Johnson that would reinstate and provide back pay to those who had been dismissed by the military over their refusal to take the Covid-19 vaccination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, the Senate approved an $858 billion military policy bill that included a provision putting an end to the controversial Covid-19 vaccination mandate forced upon troops by the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1777807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[3706,5458,3998,5527,4505,9579,3819,3834,8136],"class_list":["post-1777804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-bidens","tag-bongino","tag-defense","tag-mandate","tag-military","tag-overturned","tag-report","tag-spending","tag-vax"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777804","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1777804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1777807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1777804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1777804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1777804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}