Governors Criticize Biden Vaccine Mandate
Some governors were critical of President Joe Biden’s announcement of new, far-reaching federal coronavirus vaccine requirements — impacting private-sector employers, health care workers and federal contractors — that the administration hopes will curb the surging delta variant.
Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts said the state is exploring its legal options.
“President Biden’s announcement is a stunning violation of personal freedom and abuse of the federal government’s power,” Ricketts said in a statement. “This plan isn’t about public health – this is about government control and taking away personal liberties.”
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds said the plan will hurt the economy and that Biden “is taking dangerous and unprecedented steps to insert the federal government even further into our lives while dismissing the ability of Iowans and Americans to make healthcare decisions for themselves.”
Biden pushed back against the criticism to the vaccine mandate.
“I am so disappointed that particularly some Republican governors have been so cavalier with the health of these kids, so cavalier with the health of their communities,” Biden said last Friday. “This isn’t a game”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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