Thu Dec 9, 2021 – 5:38 pm EST
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – The U.S. Senate voted 52-48 Wednesday to repeal President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for private employees, a symbolic move that got two Democrats to cross party lines and oppose the federal power grab.
On September 9, Biden announced he was directing the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) to draft a rule to “require all employers with 100 or more employees to ensure their workforce is fully vaccinated or require any workers who remain unvaccinated to produce a negative test result on at least a weekly basis before coming to work.” If it takes effect, it is expected to affect around 84 million employees from roughly 1.9 million private businesses, further exacerbating staffing shortages across the U.S. economy.
Fox News reported that the Republican resolution, brought under the Congressional Review Act (enabling oversight of presidential executive orders), won the support of every GOP senator as well as Democrats Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Jon Tester of Montana.
“It’s daunting to families as they’re facing higher bills for their gas and their heating,” West Virginia Republican Sen. Shelley Moore
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