Fri Dec 9, 2022 – 6:14 pm EST
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — Republicans scored a tepid win Thursday as they successfully passed legislation to roll back the military vaccine mandate but stopped short of compelling the Pentagon to commit to the reinstatement and full compensation of the thousands of service members kicked out for refusing the shots.
House Republicans notched the long-awaited victory through the passage of the $858 billion National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the House’s annual defense funding bill. In this year’s iteration of the bill, Republicans stripped out the military-wide jab mandate that had been imposed by the Biden administration last summer.
“The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) will include a provision repealing the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for service members.” https://t.co/uiN05x7L9R #FoxNews
— Ben Brown (@BenBrownTweets) December 6, 2022
Pages 407 and 408 of the NDAA now require that “No later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall rescind the mandate the members of the Armed Forces be vaccinated against COVID-19 pursuant to the memorandum dated August 24, 2021, regarding ‘Mandatory Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccination of Department of Defense Service Members.’”
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