Biden to Mandate Vaccines for All Federal Employees, With No Option for Testing or Opt-Outs

President Joe Biden is expected to denote a vaccine mandate for each national employees with nary enactment for investigating oregon opting out.

These steps are portion of a 6-point Covid-19 enactment plan.

“We cognize that expanding vaccinations volition halt the dispersed of the pandemic we’ll get the pandemic nether control, we’ll instrumentality radical to mean life. That’s what our nonsubjective is,” said Jen Psaki, the White House property secretary.

He is besides expected to denote a large enlargement to escaped testing, which nationalist wellness officials person advocated for arsenic children hole to instrumentality to schoolhouse and immoderate workers statesman to instrumentality to offices astir the country.

“That is simply a important determination beyond the 1 Biden announced earlier this summertime that required national workers beryllium vaccinated but allowed for those who opted retired to beryllium taxable to stringent mitigation measures,” CNN reported. “The White House has said the national authorities should enactment arsenic a model for different businesses in their ain vaccine mandates, and has praised ample companies that necessitate employees to beryllium vaccinated.”

Biden volition talk astatine 5 p.m.