{"id":640935,"date":"2021-08-13T13:06:51","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T17:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=640935"},"modified":"2021-08-13T13:06:55","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T17:06:55","slug":"vaccine-mandates-for-interstate-travel-the-biden-administration-has-discussed-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vaccine-mandates-for-interstate-travel-the-biden-administration-has-discussed-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaccine Mandates For Interstate Travel? The Biden Administration Has Discussed It."},"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\">22<\/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%2Fvaccine-mandates-for-interstate-travel-the-biden-administration-has-discussed-it%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=640935&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\/08\/GettyImages-155098136.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The Biden administration has discussed the possibility of manding vaccines for interstate travel, and while they have not decided to adopt the measure, it is still possible such a mandate could be coming.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/lifestyle-joe-biden-business-health-travel-d2b00a2fddc5af7b8e23afbfd2961b02\">reported<\/a> that \u201cWhite House officials say Biden wanted to initially operate with restraint to ensure that Americans were ready for the strong-arming from the federal government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now, it appears the administration may be starting the \u201cstrong-arming\u201d process, first by requiring <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/joe-biden-business-health-coronavirus-pandemic-86f2d25311d0251bfdb776fdf092b081\">millions of federal workers<\/a> to honestly report their vaccination status or face penalties. The Pentagon also mandated vaccines for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/pentagon-announces-vaccine-mandate-for-u-s-military\">U.S. military<\/a>. But the AP insists Biden is holding back from imposing mandates on the American people, something that would quickly be legally challenged if he did so.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut even as Biden becomes more aggressive, he has refrained from using all his powers to pressure Americans to get vaccinated. He\u2019s held off, for instance, on proposals to require vaccinations for all air travelers or, for that matter, the federal workforce,\u201d the AP reported. \u201cThe result is a precarious balancing act as Biden works to make life more uncomfortable for the unvaccinated without spurring a backlash in a deeply polarized country that would only undermine his public health goals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Among the more aggressive measures discussed by the White house are \u201cmandating vaccines for interstate travel or changing how the federal government reimburses treatment for those who are unvaccinated and become ill with COVID-19.\u201d And while those options have been discussed, the AP noted, \u201cthe administration worried that they would be too polarizing for the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But that doesn\u2019t mean the Biden administration won\u2019t implement those requirements in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump previously hinted at restricting domestic flights to areas where COVID-19 was raging, but never followed through with the idea.<\/p>\n<p>How such a mandate would be enforced is a big question and would require people to be deployed to state borders to check vaccine cards as people enter states \u2013 a big undertaking that would come with numerous legal consequences.<\/p>\n<p>The news that the Biden administration has even considered vaccine mandates for interstate travel (which would likely violate the Commerce Clause of the Constitution) and deciding changing reimbursement rates for certain diseases and conditions (which would also likely see a court challenge) comes just days after Dr. Anthony Fauci suggested vaccines <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/fauci-covid-vaccines-should-be-mandated-for-teachers\">should<\/a> be mandated for teachers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to upset people, but I think we should,\u201d Fauci&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/morning-joe\/watch\/dr-fauci-there-s-no-doubt-these-vaccines-will-be-fully-approved-by-fda-118264901984\">said<\/a>&nbsp;on MSNBC\u2019s \u201cMorning Joe\u201d earlier this week. \u201cWe\u2019ve had 600,000-plus deaths and we are in a major surge now as we\u2019re going into the fall, into the school season. This is very serious business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fauci added, however, that he didn\u2019t think the mandate should come from the federal government, but from local governments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re talking about local mandates, for schools, for teachers for universities for colleges,\u201d Fauci said. \u201cI\u2019m sorry. I know people must like to have their individual freedom and not be told to do something but I think we\u2019re in such a serious situation now that under certain circumstances mandates should be done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe obviously have to balance, you know, the discussion that we\u2019ve had now for, you know, over a year is to balance the negative impact on kids from keeping them out of school,\u201d Fauci added. He added that the new Delta variant could put children at risk, urging further steps to \u201csurround the children with people, who if they are eligible to be vaccinated, get vaccinated\u2026 if you want to be around children, you have to do whatever you can to protect them. If you\u2019re eligible to get vaccinated, get vaccinated since children of certain ages can\u2019t get vaccinated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/em>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration has discussed the possibility of manding vaccines for interstate travel, and while they have not decided to adopt the measure, it is still possible such a mandate &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-640935","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\/640935","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=640935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640935\/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=640935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}