BREAKING: The Senate passed a resolution to repeal President Joe Biden's vaccination-or-testing mandate for private sector employers in a bipartisan rebuke of a key component of the White House's Covid-19 strategy.
The measure, which needed only a simple majority to advance, passed in a 52-48 vote.
“I'm not crazy about mandates,” Tester told NBC News before the vote, later calling the federal requirements “burdensome regulations.” “I want to go off script for a second and emphasize how important the vaccine is, especially booster shots for the omicron variant,” Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., told reporters Wednesday, shortly before the vote. “But the mandate is going to backfire. The people that have thus far have not gotten, have not received the vaccine are not going to do it until this White House acknowledges natural immunity.
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