A growing number of Republican senators are saying they won’t vote to partially fund the government over the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates. The federal government faces a partial government shutdown by midnight on Friday, although congressional leaders announced they would extend funding into February 2022. Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) became the latest GOP senator to say Thursday that he won’t vote to support a resolution to keep the government funded for the interim. “The only thing I want to shut down is enforcement of an immoral, unconstitutional vaccine mandate,” Lee said on the Senate floor. And Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) echoed Lee’s sentiment, saying he would block an attempt to quickly vote in favor of a stopgap bill until he gets in an amendment to defund President Joe Biden’s controversial federal vaccine mandate for private businesses with 100 or more employees. “Shutting down the government is worth saving the …
More GOP Senators Threaten to Shut Down Government Over Vaccine Mandate
December 2, 2021
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