WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. President Joe Biden, through his press secretary Jen Psaki this week said that if a bi-partisan measure to block his private workplace vaccine mandate reaches his desk after passage in the Senate and Congress, he will veto it.
Psaki said the President will overrule both the Senate and Congress and push forward on his agenda to enforce mandatory vaccines for as many Americans as possible. The Biden vaccine mandate has been met with challenges in court and in board rooms across America, but now, the U.S. Senate pass a bi-partisan bill to block the President.
That bill is heading to Congress, where it is unlikely, but possible to be approved.
“Well, I think what’s most important for people to know out there and to understand is the reason why the President proposed these requirements, which include not just a vaccine requirement, but also a testing option — testing once a week, which we feel and I think the American people feel is quite reasonable — in order to keep workplaces safe, keep schools safe, keep stores safe for people out there Christmas shopping and holiday shopping safe,” Psaki said. “We also know that it’s something — it’s steps that economists support. It’s steps that 60 percent of businesses have already put in place.
So, again, we’re hopeful that this doesn’t come to the President’s desk. I can’t make a prediction of that. I leave that to the vote counters or the whip counters in the House. But if it comes to his desk, he will veto it.”
