Fri Jan 21, 2022 – 4:23 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) — The Biden administration’s vaccine mandates suffered another setback Friday with a federal judge in Texas issuing another injunction against the policy, on top of the block already imposed by the U.S. Supreme Court.
In September, President Joe Biden directed the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) to draft a rule to “require all employers with 100 or more employees to ensure their workforce is fully vaccinated or require any workers who remain unvaccinated to produce a negative test result on at least a weekly basis before coming to work,” as well as a mandate for around 17 million healthcare workers at medical facilities that receive Medicare and Medicaid funding and one for federal contractors which accounts for roughly a fifth of the U.S. labor market. The health worker and contractor mandates contain no testing option.
The mandates provoked a litany of lawsuits that eventually brought them before the Supreme Court, which last week opted to block the employer mandate while allowing the health worker mandate to remain in effect pending final resolution of the case. In response, Biden has urged businesses to
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