{"id":1983712,"date":"2023-07-26T21:21:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T01:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-rejects-cruz-amendment-to-reinstate-military-members-discharged-over-covid-19-vaccine\/"},"modified":"2023-07-26T21:22:49","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T01:22:49","slug":"senate-rejects-cruz-amendment-to-reinstate-military-members-discharged-over-covid-19-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-rejects-cruz-amendment-to-reinstate-military-members-discharged-over-covid-19-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate denies Cruz amendment to restore discharged military personnel due to COVID-19 vaccine."},"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\">26<\/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%2Fsenate-rejects-cruz-amendment-to-reinstate-military-members-discharged-over-covid-19-vaccine%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=1983712&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--><h2>The\u2062 Senate Rejects Amendment to Reinstate Discharged Military Service Members<\/h2>\n<p>The \u2064Senate \u200drejected an amendment to the\u2063 National Defense \u2063Authorization\u200c Act on Wednesday that\u2062 would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-rejects-cruz-amendment-to-reinstate-military-members-discharged-over-covid-19-vaccine\/\" title=\"Senate denies Cruz amendment to restore discharged military personnel due to COVID-19 vaccine.\">reinstate military <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">service members<\/a>\u2062 discharged<\/a> for violating the COVID-19 vaccine \u200dmandate. The mandate was repealed as part of last year&#8217;s NDAA, and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) proposed this\u200d amendment as a continuation of that repeal.<\/p>\n<h3>Support for\u2064 Service Members<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;The brave men and women who join our military to serve their \u2063country deserve respect and support, regardless of their COVID-19 vaccine status,&#8221; Cruz stated. \u200c&#8221;This amendment\u200d would reinstate servicemembers who \u2064were wrongfully discharged due to their COVID-19 vaccine status and give justice \u200bto servicemembers punished in other ways\u200b due\u200b to COVID-19 \u2064vaccine status.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-people-have-spoken-voters-strip-away-layers-of-pennsylvania-governors-emergency-powers\/\" title=\"\u2018The People \u2026 Have Spoken\u2019: Voters Strip Away Layers Of Pennsylvania Governor\u2019s Emergency Powers\">final vote tally<\/a> was 46 votes\u2064 in favor to\u200d 53 against, falling \u2064short\u200b of the required 60\u2062 votes to pass the amendment.<\/p>\n<h3>Conflicting Views<\/h3>\n<p>Sen. Jack Reed\u2064 (D-RI) argued against the amendment, stating that \u2062it conflicted with two important \u2062tenets\u200d of the\u200c military: readiness and \u200bobeying\u200b lawful orders.\u2063 Reed emphasized\u200c that a COVID-19 infection could impact military personnel&#8217;s readiness to fight and that refusing the\u2064 vaccine when the mandate\u200d was in effect was a violation of a lawful order.<\/p>\n<p>Before the mandate was repealed, approximately 8,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-dems-reportedly-will-buck-biden-join-gop-to-repeal-military-vaccine-mandate\/\" title=\"House Dems Reportedly Will Buck Biden, Join GOP To Repeal Military Vaccine Mandate\">400 service members<\/a> \u2063were discharged. While some Democrats defected last year to support the mandate repeal, this time around, the vote was mostly along party lines.<\/p>\n<h3>Continuing\u2062 the Fight<\/h3>\n<p>Rep. Dan\u200d Bishop\u200d (R-NC) expressed his support for the amendment, stating, &#8220;While the DOD&#8217;s authoritarian COVID \u200dvaccine mandate ended last year, we cannot leave behind the\u2062 brave\u200b men and women who were wrongfully discharged or otherwise\u200b punished for refusing to take the vaccine.\u2064 These\u2064 servicemembers\u200d deserve to be made whole, and our amendment would both \u2064right \u2062this historic wrong and prevent it from \u2062ever happening\u200b again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Senate is working to make\u200b progress on the NDAA before the August recess. The vote on this amendment comes after the Republican-controlled\u200b House passed amendments related \u200bto social issues, \u200dwhich face \u200ca more\u200b challenging path in the Democratic Senate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">Click\u200d here<\/a> to read more from \u2062The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate rejected an amendment to reinstate discharged military service members who violated the COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) proposed the amendment, claiming it built on the repeal of the mandate in last year&#8217;s NDAA. 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