Congressional Republicans Call For an End to Biden's COVID Vaccine Mandates

Calvin Freiburger : Mar 10, 2022
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"History will bear record of whether we chose to endure tyranny, or oppose it."

(Washington, DC) — [LifeSiteNews.com] More than 40 Republican members of Congress are calling for an end to federal COVID-19 vaccine mandates, in a pair of appeals that is likely to fall on deaf ears within the Biden White House. (Image: Pixabay)

The Daily Wire reports that that ten senators, including Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, and Rand Paul, signed a March 4 letter urging their colleagues to join them as they "remain strongly opposed to the mandates and ... continue to work to end their imposition on Americans," followed by a March 7 letter by 36 House members, including Ralph Norman, Elise Stefanik, and Louie Gohmert, warning Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas that vaccine mandates on truckers will lead to "limitations and delays [that] will have a catastrophic impact on our already fragile supply chain and proliferate rising food prices."

"History will bear record of whether we chose to endure tyranny, or oppose it, in this pivotal moment," reads the Senate letter. "We invite you to stand with us and oppose the continued funding of these mandates." It stresses that "this is a GOP conference position," and "as such, it should be a part of the negotiation for inclusion in any spending bill." The signatories urge their colleagues to demand a roll call vote on an amendment to defund whatever vaccine mandates remain in effect, which would not succeed in taking effect but would put every member of the Senate on the record and place pressure on mandate supporters going into the midterm elections.

The House letter, meanwhile, is focused on the Department of Homeland Security's vaccine mandate for "all non-US citizens entering the United States through land ports and ferry terminals," which "appl[ies] to non-US citizens who are traveling for both essential and non-essential reasons, including H-2A temporary agricultural workers and truck drivers."

"Our nation is facing a major food supply chain crisis and worker shortage. Shelves in grocery stores remain empty, and the price of food continues to rise," the representatives write. "For decades, agricultural employers who anticipate a shortage of domestic workers have brought nonimmigrant foreign workers to the US to perform agricultural labor or services of a temporary or seasonal nature through the H-2A temporary agricultural program. Now that these H-2A workers are required to be fully vaccinated to enter the US, we have heard from numerous farmers and constituents who worry that these new vaccination requirements are delaying and will continue to delay the arrival of H-2A workers this year"... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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