Conservative members of Congress are pushing — using the upcoming fiscal 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) — to repeal the U.S. armed forces’ Covid vaccine mandate and reinstate service members who were discharged because of it.
On November 30, 13 U.S. Senators signed a letter addressed to Republican Senate leadership declaring their opposition to passing the NDAA unless a vote is held on an amendment to repeal the mandate and reinstate the discharged service members. That same day, 21 governors signed a letter, addressed to Republican and Democratic leaders in the House and Senate, calling for the mandate’s repeal.
These followed an October 11 letter by the House Freedom Caucus, sent to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), urging them to oppose the NDAA’s passage unless the mandate is repealed, among other reforms:
Republicans must demand that the NDAA:
(1) fully repeals the vaccine mandate and allows service members involuntarily discharged to be reinstated without penalty;
(2) ends the contamination of our military by radical Leftist “woke” ideologies and the prioritization of politics over combat readiness;
(3) halts wasteful spending on “Green New Deal” pet climate projects; and
(4) establishes a Special Inspector General on U.S. involvement in Ukraine.
These letters appear to be influencing Republican leadership; in mid-November, McCarthy threatened to delay the bill over “the woke-ism [Democrats] want to bring in there,” and on Sunday he called for delaying the bill specifically over the vaccine mandate. Additionally, Representative Mike Waltz (R-Fla.), the incoming chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Readiness, stated he would push to end the Covid jab mandate.
Enacting the NDAA is one of Congress’ priorities for the 2022 lame-duck session, with the House expected to move forward with the bill this week. The NDAA, passed annually by Congress, sets the armed forces’ policies and priorities.
Under the Biden administration, the armed forces have implemented multiple extremist and woke policies. The Covid jab mandate is one of the most far-reaching of these. The vast majority of religious-exemption requests have been denied (the exemptions that were approved were for service members already about to leave the service). Furthermore, some service members have been persecuted simply for objecting to non-licensed Covid jabs. (According to a whistleblower report, the Covid-19 jab is being illegally administered.)
Illustrating the insanity of the armed forces’ vaccine mandate, in October, Joe Biden publicly thanked a Coast Guard member — who was about to be discharged because of the mandate — for “heroic work” following Hurricane Ian.
According to Dale Saran, a veteran and an attorney fighting the mandates, the Pentagon’s pretenses about needing the mandate for military readiness are false:
That’s all a cover story. It’s done just to break. And so whether it was intentional or not … it nicely cleaves the military into two groups, those who bend the knee and those who won’t, and it’s really hard to get off your knee once you’ve once you’ve taken it.
Since Covid-19 spread to the United States, there has been a full-on assault on both the nation and Americans’ God-given freedoms, including (but not limited to) the military’s Covid vaccine mandate. The Marxist Left won’t end this assault until they have total control over all humanity. Accordingly, it is imperative that patriots take immediate action to defend liberty.
To urge your U.S. representative and senators to repeal the military’s Covid vaccine mandate via the NDAA, visit The John Birch Society’s legislative alert here.
