House Republicans to Introduce Resolution to Strike Down Biden Vaccine Mandate

President Joe Biden is seen upon accomplishment astatine a clime acme successful the United Kingdom connected Nov. 1, 2021. (Adrian Dennis/Pool/Getty Images)

A radical of Republican lawmakers are readying to present a solution to onslaught down President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate aft the national Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) released its exigency impermanent modular requiring businesses with 100 oregon much workers to person their workers get vaccinated oregon taxable to regular investigating for COVID-19.

In a statement issued connected Thursday, House Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) confirmed that GOP lawmakers connected her committee volition “introduce instantly a Congressional Review Act solution to nullify OSHA’s ’emergency’ regularisation erstwhile it is received by Congress.”

Biden’s regularisation (pdf) volition spell into effect on Jan. 4 successful a bid to raise vaccination rates and get much radical backmost to work. However, a important fig of commercialized groups person issued warnings astir the mandate, saying that it would exacerbate proviso concatenation bottlenecks and staffing shortages nationwide—leading immoderate relation presidents to inquire the White House to hold the regularisation until aft the vacation season.

Employers are not required to supply oregon wage for tests, and the regularisation offers aesculapian and spiritual exemptions. Unvaccinated radical person to deterioration masks portion connected the job, the regularisation stipulates.

Those who bash not comply with the mandate volition effect successful an astir $14,000 good per usurpation with a standard that increases with respective violations, according to the rule. It’s not wide what punishment volition beryllium handed down for workers who don’t deterioration look masks and who are not vaccinated.

A elder Biden medication authoritative said Thursday that the White House believes the mandate volition spur vaccinations crossed the United States.

“Thousands of employers person answered the president’s telephone and stepped up to instrumentality vaccination requirements covering tens of millions of Americans,” the authoritative said.

After Biden announced the mandate connected Sept. 9, a fig of Republican governors and attorneys wide promised to record lawsuits against the rule. So far, much than a twelve GOP-led states person sued the medication implicit a related but abstracted mandate that national contractors and workers get the vaccine.

And connected Wednesday, a radical of Republican senators sent a missive to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) signaling their volition to artifact backing for the vaccine mandate.

“We volition reason each efforts to instrumentality and enforce it with each instrumentality astatine our disposal, including our votes connected spending measures considered by the Senate,” the missive led by Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) read. “To beryllium sure, we hold that countless Americans person benefitted from the extortion offered by the COVID-19 vaccines. Nevertheless, the determination whether to beryllium vaccinated against COVID-19 is simply a highly idiosyncratic 1 that should ne'er beryllium forced upon individuals by the national government.”