Kamala’s COVID vaccine mandate was memory-holed — why Americans must know her stance NOW



Less than three years ago, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris attempted to force the entirety of the country to get the COVID mRNA vaccine — which was an experimental shot — by threatening the loss of people's jobs.

Such a grotesque display of government overreach cannot, and should not, be forgotten by Americans as they head to the polls this November.

“Kamala and Biden used the administrative state of the federal government to do their dirty work. They used an agency called OSHA to threaten employers. They tried to force all businesses, including small businesses, to be the enforcers of this vaccine mandate,” Liz Wheeler of “The Liz Wheeler Show” explains.

“If employers didn’t mandate that their employees, you and I, be vaxxed, then the employer would face penalties from this agency of the executive branch of the federal government,” Wheeler comments.

The Supreme Court wasn’t having it, and it was fortunately overturned.

“It’s unconstitutional, it’s egregious tyranny, it’s a violation of your medical freedom and mine,” Wheeler says, though she can’t believe it hasn’t been brought up to the Democratic nominee for president, Kamala Harris.

“This vaccine mandate was imposed by Kamala and Biden. Kamala and Biden made up this tyrannical mandate. Kamala and Biden tried to enforce this on businesses. Kamala and Biden threatened you with being fired from your job if you didn’t comply with his mandate. So why is nobody asking Kamala about this on the campaign trail?” Wheeler asks.

“Let me tell you specifically how to ask Kamala about this,” she continues. “Madam Vice President, do you agree with the Supreme Court that the OSHA vaccine mandate is illegal? It has to be asked in just that way, because if Kamala says yes, she agrees with the Supreme Court, then she admits that she tried to tyrannize you.”

“If Kamala says no, she doesn’t agree with the Supreme Court, then she admits she thinks it's perfectly OK to do what she did to mandate a vaccine on you,” Wheeler adds. “She wants to be president, God forbid, she must be asked, she must answer this question.”


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Starbucks drops employee vaccine mandate



Starbucks is scrapping its planned employee vaccine mandate in response to the Supreme Court's decision to block some of the Biden administration's COVID-19 vaccine requirements from taking effect.

In a memo reported by the Associated Press, the Seattle-based coffee chain said unvaccinated workers will be able to keep their jobs because of the court's decision.

“We respect the court’s ruling and will comply,” Starbucks Chief Operating Officer John Culver wrote to employees.

The reversal comes a little more than two weeks after Starbucks announced a plan to require all employees to be vaccinated by Feb. 9 or be subjected to weekly virus testing. The announcement was made on Jan. 3 and required all of the company's 229,000 U.S. employees to disclose their vaccination status by Jan. 10.

Starbucks said Wednesday that 90% of its employees reported their vaccination status, and that the "vast majority" of workers are fully vaccinated, the AP reported.

Employees would have been required to receive either two shots of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine or one shot of the Johnson & Johnson booster. Anyone who declined to get the shots would have had to pay for the cost of virus testing themselves. Those who applied for a religious or medical exemption would still have had to get tested.

At the time, Culver said company leadership was responsible for doing "whatever we can to help keep you safe and create the safest work environment possible."

President Joe Biden had ordered that employers with more than 100 employees be required to have their workers vaccinated or regularly tested for the virus. But on Jan. 13, the Supreme Court blocked the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's temporary emergency standards imposing the federal vaccine mandate from taking effect. In a 6-3 decision, the court majority said OSHA lacked the authority to impose such requirements.

But the Biden administration continues to urge employers to comply with their proposed requirements anyway. Some large companies have already done so. The Washington Post reported that the apparel company Carhartt will continue to make vaccines mandatory for employees.

Citigroup will also move forward with its vaccine mandate, but General Electric said last week it will not, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Starbucks will reportedly continue to strongly encourage employees to get vaccinations and booster shots. The company is also asking workers to stop wearing cloth masks and instead use medical-grade surgical masks to mitigate the potential spread of COVID-19.

Republicans are united behind effort to overturn OSHA vaccine mandate: Rand Paul



Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said Wednesday that Republicans in the Senate are universally opposed to President Joe Biden's federal vaccine mandate, predicting that a resolution to nullify the mandate will pass the Senate with Democratic support.

Senators are expected to vote at around 5:30 p.m. ET Wednesday on SJRes29, a bill that would overturn the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's COVID-19 vaccine mandate on large private companies via the Congressional Review Act. The resolution has the full support of the House Republican conference and, Paul told Newsmax, every Republican senator.

"This is a special situation, what we call a privileged motion. It is a real bill and it would be a law but it has to be signed by the president. We can do this any time that there's a regulation or a rule put out," Paul explained Wednesday.

.@RandPaul: "The Republican Party is entirely united against mandating or firing people who choose not to get vaccinated." \n\n@HeatherChilders @BobSellersTVpic.twitter.com/CwoCAd4oHt
— Newsmax (@Newsmax) 1638992624

"This resolution, which we're going to pass today, all 50 Republicans will vote for it and the word is that Sen. [Joe] Manchin will join us. So we will end up winning this vote," Paul said.

At least two Senate Democrats have publicly stated they will vote for the resolution. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said last week he will join Republicans to vote for the bill.

“I do not support any government vaccine mandate on private businesses. That’s why I have cosponsored and will strongly support a bill to overturn the federal government vaccine mandate for private businesses,” Manchin said in a statement.

He was joined by Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) on Tuesday, who told The Hill via a spokesman he is "inclined to vote for the CRA resolution" put forward by the Republicans.

Manchin and Tester's support would give a united Republican conference 52 votes to pass the resolution and send it to the House of Representatives for a vote.

Paul was less optimistic that the resolution will pass in the House, where he said Democrats will "march lockstep" to support Biden's vaccine mandate, but he held out hope that some moderates may vote with Republicans.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has no plans to bring the resolution to a floor vote. However, if a majority of the House signs a discharge petition filed by Republicans, they can force Pelosi to hold a vote.

Rep. Fred Keller (R-Pa.), the sponsor of the House's version of the resolution, confirmed Tuesday that all 212 members of the GOP conference had co-sponsored the bill.

All 212 members of @HouseGOP have cosponsored my Congressional Review Act resolution to nullify President Biden\u2019s vaccine mandate on private employers with more than 100 employees.\n\nI urge my House Democratic colleagues to stand with us against this blatant gov\u2019t overreach.pic.twitter.com/YX9ivKXJPD
— Congressman Fred Keller (@Congressman Fred Keller) 1638899358

Paul also cautioned that even if the House surprised and passed the resolution, Biden will almost certainly veto any attempt by Congress to reverse his vaccination order. He also admitted that there aren't enough Democrats opposed to the mandate in either the House or the Senate to overturn a veto.

"There is some symbolism to this," Paul acknowledged. "But it shows you that the Republican Party is entirely united against mandating or firing people who choose not to get vaccinated."

Regardless of what actions Congress takes, Biden's OSHA mandate has temporarily been suspended pending further litigation after multiple lawsuits were filed challenging the president's authority to mandate COVID-19 vaccinations.

An attempt by some conservative lawmakers to shut down the government to defund the mandate was unsuccessful, as many GOP senators stated their preference for using the Congressional Review Act to show where lawmakers stood on the issue.

Biden administration's OSHA suspends enforcement of vaccine mandate



The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has suspended the implementation and enforcement of President Joe Biden's vaccine mandate for private employers, following a federal court order to do so.

The agency announced Wednesday that it will comply with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit order to "take no steps to implement or enforce" the vaccine mandate "until further court order."

"While OSHA remains confident in its authority to protect workers in emergencies, OSHA has suspended activities related to the implementation and enforcement of the ETS pending future developments in the litigation," the agency said.

The announcement comes after a Nov. 12 ruling from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals staying implementation and enforcement of Biden's vaccine mandate until there is a final ruling on its legality.

The mandate, known as the COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing Emergency Temporary Standard, requires employers that have 100 or more employees to have each of their workers vaccinated against COVID-19 or tested regularly for the virus. Employers that do not comply could face nearly $14,000 in penalties per violation.

The standards were intended to take effect on Jan. 4, but a flurry of legal challenges questioning the constitutionality of OSHA's mandate put a temporary halt to its enforcement. At least 27 states have challenged the vaccine mandate in courts, as well as other groups, calling Biden's order a gross example of federal overreach.

A federal judiciary panel on Wednesday randomly selected the Sixth Circuit Appeals Court in Cincinnati to take up the more than 30 cases filed against Biden's vaccine mandate, Fox News reported.

The Department of Justice has pledged to "vigorously defend" the OSHA mandate in court.

"This decision is just the beginning of the process for review of this important OSHA standard," an agency spokesperson told Fox News. "The Department will continue to vigorously defend the standard and looks forward to obtaining a definitive resolution following consolidation of all of the pending cases for further review."

In his decision to block OSHA's standard, Fifth Circuit Judge Kurt Engelhardt said a stay was in the public's best interest because of concerns over the sweeping impact the vaccine mandate could have on the economy.

"The public interest is also served by maintaining our constitutional structure and maintaining the liberty of individuals to make intensely personal decisions according to their own convictions - even, or perhaps particularly, when those decisions frustrate government officials," Engelhardt wrote.

'We are not going to comply': Daily Wire files legal challenge to Biden's vaccine mandate



On Thursday, the Daily Wire filed a lawsuit against the federal government to stop President Joe Biden's vaccine mandate on large private businesses.

The conservative media outlet partnered with the Dhillon Law Group, Inc., and the Alliance Defending Freedom to sue the Biden administration in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, the Daily Wire reports.

Biden's vaccine mandate applies to companies with more than 100 employees, which are now required by a temporary emergency standard issued by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to have their workers get vaccinated against COVID-19 or submit to weekly testing for the virus. Businesses that do not comply could face nearly $14,000 in fines per violation. Companies must come into compliance with OSHA's mandate by Jan. 4.

The president said Thursday that the vaccine mandate will impact 100 million Americans.

In response, several Republican states filed lawsuits challenging OSHA's mandate, along with businesses in at least three states, including the Daily Wire.

"We are not going to comply with this mandate and we've already filed a federal lawsuit with the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals to stop this mandate," Daily Wire editor emeritus Ben Shapiro said on "Fox and Friends" Friday.

"It is unconstitutional, it is illegal, it violates the original enabling act for OSHA. It is completely anti-scientific as well," he added.

Shapiro characterized the mandate as "a crackdown on liberty by the Biden administration."

He also pointed out the "irony" of the government issuing an "emergency temporary measure" that won't go into effect for 60 days, conveniently after the holiday season ends.

"This has nothing to do with actually mitigating COVID and everything to do with top-down control by the Biden administration," Shapiro said.

According to a press release, the Daily Wire will argue in court that OSHA issued the vaccine mandate illegally:

As the motion for stay filed with the 6th Circuit will argue, the federal government has no power under the Constitution to force half the U.S. private sector workforce — 80 million workers or more — to be vaccinated against their will or endure repeated medical testing as a condition of simply earning a living. Nor is OSHA empowered to compel employers to enforce this government diktat or face punishing fines. Yet the OSHA mandate would do just that. Even if it had such power, Congress did not delegate it to OSHA, which is overtly trying to ram this unconstitutional, extra-statutory, and unprecedented mandate into immediate effect through emergency rulemaking to avoid public comment in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act.

Forced to invade employees' medical choices or histories and their religious beliefs in connection with a condition of employment, The Daily Wire risks being trapped between its obligations under the mandate and the prohibitions against discrimination under the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as well as the burdens of laws regulating the possession of private information. The mandate is unconstitutional because the Constitution does not grant Congress — much less OSHA — the general police powers needed to mandate vaccination and virus testing as a condition of private employment, or to deputize employers to enforce that mandate on its behalf.