Tue Jan 25, 2022 – 6:18 pm EST
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – A handful of conservative Republicans are urging their colleagues to be willing to force a government shutdown standoff to prevent passage of the next government funding bill if it contains money to enforce the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
Fox News reported that the letter, currently being circulated for signatures by Rep. Chip Roy of Texas, challenges House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to “decide whether they will vote to fund a federal government that is enforcing tyrannical COVID-19 vaccine mandates on the American people.”
“Congressional Republicans cannot continue to abdicate their Article I duties in hopes the judicial branch will rule in favor of the American people,” it reads. “Therefore, we the undersigned refuse to consider supporting any federal government funding vehicle, be it a continuing resolution or an omnibus appropriations measure, that funds the enforcement of COVID-19 vaccine mandates at any level of government.”
More than a dozen Republicans have reportedly signed on so far, including Reps. Lauren Boebert of Colorado, Paul Gosar of Arizona, Clay Higgins of Louisiana, and Scott Perry of Pennsylvania. The federal government’s
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