President Joe Biden could sign a defense funding bill that includes the termination of the military’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate, the White House signaled on Dec. 7.
John Kirby, a White House spokesperson, declined to say whether Biden would sign the measure if the removal of the mandate remains, but also did not say Biden would veto it.
Instead, Kirby said including the provision in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) was “a mistake.”
“Making sure our troops are ready to defend this country and prepared to do so that remains the President’s priority and the vaccine requirement for COVID does just that,” Kirby said during a briefing on Dec. 7, news outlets reported. “But Republicans in Congress have obviously decided that they’d rather fight against the health and well-being of those troops, rather than protecting them.”…