By Jon Styf (The Heart Sq.)
Tennessee Gov. Invoice Lee and 20 different Republican governors despatched a letter to congressional leaders opposing a COVID-19 vaccine mandate on members of the U.S. Armed Forces.
The letter asks these leaders to oppose the mandate from President Joe Biden’s administration that was issued on Aug. 24, 2021.
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“As Governors, our potential to answer pure disasters and conduct emergency operations is contingent upon the energy and measurement of our Nationwide Guard models,” the letter stated. “As Congressional leaders, it’s your obligation to offer for the nationwide protection, and due to this fact, we name upon you to guard the women and men in uniform – who defend us – from an pointless vaccine mandate. As President Biden, himself, acknowledged on September 18, 2022, ‘The pandemic is over.’”
The letter was signed by Alabama’s Kay Ivey, Arizona’s Doug Ducey, Arkansas’ Asa Hutchinson, Florida’s Ron DeSantis, Idaho’s Brad Little, Indiana’s Eric Holcomb, Iowa’s Kim Reynolds, Mississippi’s Tate Reeves, Missouri’s Mike Parson, Montana’s Greg Gianforte, Nebraska’s Pete Ricketts, New Hampshire’s Chris Sununu, North Dakota’s Doug Burgum, Oklahoma’s Kevin Stitt, South Carolina’s Henry McMaster, South Dakota’s Kristi Noem, Texas’ Greg Abbott, Utah’s Spencer Cox, Virginia’s Glenn Youngkin and Wyoming’s Mark Gordon.
The letter comes after 47 members of Congress requested for the same transfer to take away the mandate in September. In that plea, the members stated that the mandate meant that “eight p.c of the Military’s roughly 1 million troopers face expulsion, Military recruiters can’t meet their FY22 goal, and the Military has reduce its projected FY23 finish energy by 12,000 troopers. ”
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The governors’ letter acknowledged that the mandate had led the Nationwide Guard to overlook its recruitment goal by 10% and it was “getting ready to discharge roughly 14,000 troopers within the subsequent two years for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine.”
The Military recruitment objective missed by 25%, falling 15,000 recruits wanting its goal, in line with U.S. Military Secretary Christine Wormuth on Oct. 10. And the letter stated that the Armed Forces discharged 8,000 lively obligation members by Nov. 15 because of the vaccine mandate.
“The Biden vaccine mandate on our navy creates a nationwide safety danger that severely impacts our protection capabilities overseas and our state readiness right here at house,” the letter acknowledged.
Syndicated with permission from The Heart Sq..
