Members of Congress, their staffers, and those who work in the federal court system are exempted from Biden’s vaccine mandate.
It doesn’t apply because the vaccine mandate applies to employees of the executive branch.
Members of Congress and their staff are exempt from Biden's vaccine mandate https://t.co/Gy68SC2wAr
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) September 10, 2021
President Joe Biden’s new vaccine mandates for federal employees don’t apply to members of Congress or those who work for Congress or the federal court system.Biden issued two executive orders on Thursday requiring vaccination against COVID for federal workers and contractors who work for the federal government. He also asked the Department of Labor to issue an emergency order requiring businesses with more than 100 employees to ensure their workers are vaccinated or tested on a weekly basis.However, Biden’s order on federal workers applies to employees of the executive branch. The House of Representatives and the Senate belong to the separate legislative branch, and the courts to the judicial branch of the federal government.
The United States Postal Service also is exempt from the vaccine mandate.
A spokesman confirmed this on Friday.
The United States Postal Service is not one of the agencies compelled to require COVID-19 vaccination under President Joe Biden’s new executive order, a spokesman said Friday.“The COVID-19 vaccination requirements included in the White House executive order issued on September 9, 2021, for federal employees do not apply to the Postal Service,” a spokesman for the U.S. Postal Service, or USPS, told The Epoch Times in an email.“Regarding other vaccination rules expected to be issued by the federal government, the Postal Service has no comment until those rules are issued and we have had a chance to review them,” he added.
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