Biden will force ALL federal workers to be vaccinated with NO testing options

President Joe Biden will require all federal workers to be vaccinated, a part of a series of new mandates he’ll push in a major speech on the COVID pandemic Thursday.

In his remarks, Biden will announce he’ll sign an executive order requiring that federal workers get vaccinated with no option of being regularly tested to opt out of the requirement, CNN reported, citing a source with knowledge of the plans. He’ll also sign an executive order giving the same requirement to federal contactors. 

The president is putting more pressure on states, businesses and schools to get people vaccinated as the Delta variant causes the case rate to continue to rise in the United States. 

White House press secretary Jen Psaki indicated in interviews on Thursday morning that more mandates were coming. 

‘What we’ve seen work over the past couple months are mandates, requirements, making it so workers in the federal government or others have to get vaccinated. We’ve seen it work and we’ve seen it become more popular,’ Psaki said on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Thursday morning.

‘He’s going to speak directly to vaccinated people and their frustrations and he wants them to hear how we’re going to build on what we’ve done to date to get the virus under control,’ she said. 

President Joe Biden will require all federal workers to be vaccinated, a part of a series of new mandates he’ll push in a major speech on the COVID pandemic

White House press secretary Jen Psaki indicated in interviews on Thursday morning that more mandates were coming

There have now been more than 40 million cases of COVID recorded among Americans, which is nearly one-fifth of the global total of cases.

Biden, in his remarks scheduled for 5 p.m. ET time, will address six areas where his administration can push for more Americans to get vaccinated: that includes new plans to get more people vaccinated, enhancing protection for those who already have had shots, keeping schools open, increasing testing and mask-wearing, protecting the economic recovery and improving healthcare. 

Specific details have not been released by administration officials told The New York Times that it will include new federal requirements for vaccination.

President Biden and administration officials have repeatedly emphasized the best way for life to return to normal is for people to get vaccinated. 

About 27 per cent of the eligible U.S. population age 12 and older have not received any COVID vaccine, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Meanwhile about 75 per cent of Americans have received at least one shot and 53 per cent are fully vaccinated.

Dr. Anthony Fauci said Americans are getting infected with COVID at 10 times the rate needed to end the pandemic.

‘We’re still in pandemic mode, because we have 160,000 new infections a day,’ Fauci told Axios. ‘That’s not even modestly good control.’ 

‘In a country of our size, you can’t be hanging around and having 100,000 infections a day,’ he continued. ‘You’ve got to get well below 10,000 before you start feeling comfortable.’

About 75 per cent of Americans have received at least one shot and 53 per cent are fully vaccinated

The vaccination rate among Americans has increased since July, which is when the Delta variant caused case rates to spike, but it remains low in Southern states like Florida and Texas.

Biden will also address the divide between the vaccinated and unvaccinated. 

‘He also will acknowledge the fact that the 175 million people who are vaccinated out there, many of them are frustrated. They want to go back to normal. Of course they do. That’s going to require moving more unvaccinated people to a vaccinated status. That’s what he’ll talk about,’ Psaki told CNN on Thursday morning.

In his remarks, Biden also will seek to return his focus to the COVID pandemic, resetting the narrative after the difficult evacuation of Americans from Afghanistan and from Democratic in-fighting on Capitol Hill over his $3.5 trillion budget filled with social programs.