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President Biden announced a far-reaching vaccine mandate that will impact an estimated 80 million Americans in the public and private sector, but members of Congress and their staff will reportedly be exempt from the new reform.

The extensive mandate will affect both federal workers and federal contractors within the executive branch, which tally up to nearly 18 million Americans. “If you want to do business with the federal government, get your workforce vaccinated,” Biden remarked Thursday.

\Shockingly, the expansive executive order will also apply to private companies with over 100 employees, who will be required to get vaxxed or submit to weekly COVID-19 testing, accounting for the other 62 million people in the American workforce that will be affected.

“This isn’t about freedom, or personal choice, it’s about protecting those people around you, and the people you love,” Biden stated. “We’ve been patient, but our patience is wearing thin. And your refusal has cost all of us.”

Seemingly the only subset of federal employees that will be exempt from the sweeping mandate are employees of the legislative branch, which includes members of the House of Representatives and the Senate. 

According to the New York Times, the executive order “will apply to employees of the executive branch, including the White House and all federal agencies and members of the armed services — a work force that numbers more than four million — but not to those who work for Congress or the federal court system, according to White House officials.”

Members of Congress, nearly 31,000 congressional staffers, and an additional 30,000 federal court system workers won’t be required to submit to the mandate because Biden is implementing it through an executive order, which does not impact employees of the legislative branch.  

According to the Congressional Institute, “the president cannot impose a vaccine mandate on Congress via executive order or in an agency or department regulation.”  

When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was asked about the implementation of a vaccine mandate for Congress, she replied, “We are guided and have to be guided by the guidance of the Capitol Physician. He has made those contentions. And when weighing the equities takes us to a different place, I’m sure he will tell us.”

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  1. Double standards one for citizens and one for subjects. Welcome to
    “The Peoples Republic of America” a possession of the CCP.

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  2. Firstly, that’s pure out bullcrap. What’s good for the goose should be good for the gander. Secondly, they’re exempt cause they know the vaccine is bogus and will do more harm than good. This entire covid episode is riddled with falsehoods all stemming from our supposed leaders. RESIST

    1. And they’ll keep doing it as long as the american coward citizens keep rolling over for it, which they continually do.

      1. I agree, but this episode is hit the latest salvo in the continuing erosion of our freedoms and independence. This sad state of affairs started early in the twentieth century with the Fed and the income tax. WE have let it continue to snowball since then.

    2. I am amazed how many people think they are experts on vaccination. If you were you would wholeheartedly support it. I have been a registered nurse and worked with infectious diseases, and know how blessed we are to have vaccines available for us.

          1. An the fact that his press secretary gets up there in front of the whole world an says all illegals pouring into our country don’t have to be tested or have to get the shot COMMUNIST leaders in charge. The worst ADMINISTRATION in American History An more than 30% of illegals have the CHINA VIRUS AN SO FAR THE TALABON REFERGEES IN OUR COUNTRY OVER 300 HUNDRED OF THEM HAS TIES TO TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS TIME TO FIGHT BACK

          2. She’s a piece o’ SHIT, of course. To be a Democrat, you HAD to be originate in a bowel.

      1. Yes, that is most likely true. I did get both Moderna shots, BUT I ABSOLUTELY DID NOT GET THEM BECAUSE BIDEN AND FAUCI SAID TO DO SO. I do not trust a single word that comes out of their mouths, they are both LIARS. Rather I talked to my personal physician and SHE suggested it would be a prudent thing to do. Listening to anything Biden and Fauci, reccomend is a waste of your time, because neither of them can be trusted.

        1. Getting both shots was Your choice and Your choice solely after you weighted all the facts, not because of a mandate. This is why we fight for rights in USA to be able to make these informed choices and not to condemn a person for their choices, people need to wake up and realize this is what freedom and our Constitution is biased upon.

        2. None of them knows your circumstances, only your Doctor. I would not trust them any farther than I could throw a bull by its tail. They are only politicians. Fauci claims to be more but he has got caught in politics and making a fortune out of this virus until he is not creditable

      2. Go live under the tyrannical governments of Iran, China, Russia, Syria, North Korea, Argentina, Cuba or any of the other vast dictatorial communist third world sewers. Freedom of choice and God given rights are not in the lexicons of the citizens. The misinformed, uninformed, racial biased( black, white, brown, red and yellow and religious intolerant) anti-Christian, anti-Jewish, anti-Buddhist, anti whatever are the self centered pseudo intellectuals are attempting to assassinate our constitutional freedoms. Mental midgets all. Fortunately the majority of freedom loving patriotic Americans will not permit them to be successful.

      3. I think you’ve been injecting too much of that liberal toxin into your veins. First of all, we aren’t talking about ALL vaccines, we’re talking about the current crop of COVID vaccines. These “vaccines” (they’re not actually vaccines) failed the animal trials and there have been ZERO studies on long term side effects. THOUSANDS of people have died from taking them and THOUSANDS more have developed debilitating side effects. In 1976 a vaccine was developed for the Swine Flu “epidemic.” Roughly 40 million Americans took the vaccine and about 500 of them developed Guillain-Barre syndrome of which 25 died. After 10 weeks, the vaccine was pulled from distribution and it’s use was discontinued due to the high number of negative side effects, yet the current crop of government idiots we have in this country are FORCING Americans to take this deadly Covid concoction, and you call that being blessed???

      4. Maybe some are very good, but are you going to guaranty that this vaccine is safe?? Most that I know of have been tested and retested even those for our children.

      5. Dear Registared Nurse working on infectious diseases… how many drug trial have you worked on? how much stats and research do you have… me I have worked in cancer research for the last 10 years…well the last ten years before my disability then retirement… I have worked on numberous drug trials.
        How about answering a few questions…
        1) at first when they were developing this vaccine they said this will make you safe, no more masks, you will be good to go. They said this all the way up till, wait for it, people who got vaccinated came down with covid.
        2) now you need to waer masks and the vaccine will make your covid infections less harmful.
        3) nobody knows the side effects, in fact the CDC isn’t even tracking vaccinated people that got covid, nor deaths of vaccinated people that died from covid.. They don’t want to know that s..t.
        4)now you do what ypu want to but… bad news… masks don’t work. Evebn the quack Fauci said that at the beginning, damn one time that waste of air told the truth. I think it was luck that fauci got it right. Bet you worship the ground he walks on…funny to the point of being sad.
        4) tell me how a virus can mutate in a person that isn’t vaccinated. You get a bacterial infection. You don’t take antibotics then that same bacterial will do what it does… it does NOT mutate. Now let’s say you got that bacterial innfection and you taake antibotics and those antibiotics are wrong, not a long enough dosage time, you stop beffore the regiment of antibotics is up… guesss what happened that bacterial infection cmes back worse and typically with a new mutated stronger bacteria.. Did you learn theis s..t in you registaerd nures school… WELL THE SAME THING HAPPEND WITH VIRUSES. You people that got vaccinated are making the virus worse, mutating, and effecting all of us.
        5) you know how many FDA APPORVED DRUGS, end up getting revoked? ,About 1/3, SEE: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/05/09/527575055/one-third-of-new-drugs-had-safety-problems-after-fda-approval
        Interesting quotes from the ubove cite.
        “It took a median of 4.2 years after the drugs were approved for these safety concerns to come to light, the study found, and issues were more common among psychiatric drugs, biologic drugs, drugs that were granted “accelerated approval” and drugs that were approved near the regulatory deadline for approval.”
        There are many article just like this one.

        Now what I believe is the kicker is there are many people, yes Dr.s, researcher, etc. that believe the death counts of covid related deaths is biased way high. Want me to cite… answer this response. I will cite the side effects of masks and their adverse events, I will explain why these side effects occur and why masks don’t work.

        i haven’t gone into any of my educational background nor any of my work experience other than what i stated. I can but it includes research in a number of areas, much work experience from labor to blue collar/technical/and other.

        The end is nobody can tell you muuch of anything about these vaccines, for example, how long od they last, do you have to continue to get shots, will there be long term adverse effects, hell will there be short term effects (I define short term as true results from true data that shows actual adverse reactions with in 1 year…but because the FDA recalling drugs and the medium of 4.2 years that could be a better short term time.

      6. You may be a nurse but you do not know my circumstances or a lot of other peoples . I am not against vaccines I have had many in the 82 years on this planet but I have not and will not take this vaccine. I could possibly die from it as i have a very bad record with medications and I have not had one of my Doctors say you should take it . So go preach to someone else

    3. Your exempt but those of us that have problems with medications has to be put through the third degree before we are allowed to not take it Why don.t all of you just go jump off a bridge and end your miserable life Its as if when you get to Washington you all loose your brains. What is in the water up there?

  3. “When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was asked about the implementation of a vaccine mandate for Congress, she replied, “We are guided and have to be guided by the guidance of the Capitol Physician. He has made those contentions. And when weighing the equities takes us to a different place, I’m sure he will tell us.””…People…wake TFU…

      1. Uuuh, let’s just go with EVIL, ok?
        Call a spade a spade.
        A more Deserving or Appropriate WICKED WITCH can NOT be found.

    1. It’s just another type of Influenza!
      It’s just a damned SHAME we can’t send a MUCH more Deadly, truly FATAL virus into the halls of Congress…. with the FIRST inflicted being Mzzzz
      Piglosi!

  4. Exempt: Congress, the help and 60 Million as of last year ILLEGAL ALIEN CATHOLIC INVADERS…Pelosi, CATHOLIC “C” traitor proudly CROWED that there are more than 60 million ILLEGAL ALIEN CATHOLIC INVADERS in the USA now. Vote for ANY CATHOLIC and you vote for a traitor; The only difference between Muslim and CATHOLIC “C” is the continent they destroy.

  5. “Members of Congress” shouldn’t be exempt from anything whatsoever that they pass, not even in the slightest form.

  6. If these thieves in Congress are exempt then so are we..law is suppose to include everyone..maybe they need to explain to the supremes why they think they are so much better then the sheep

    1. And yet he occupies the oval office when the coward citizenry of america know better. Shame on them, they deserve the slavery that is rapidly approaching.

  7. The corrupt politicians of the US Congress always exempt themselves from any bad legislation they plan to pass or push through Presidential executive orders. They did this with the Ponzi scheme of social security, they have done it with insider trading on stocks, they have done it with Obama Care, they have effectively done it with gun control as the have body guards who carry guns, and now they are trying to force vaccine mandates on us while exempting themselves and their staff. They know that these experimental vaccines are dangerous and most likely will cause long term side effects and do not want that for themselves.
    Question, if Biden is exempting Congress and their staff from the vaccines do you really believe he or any of his family, friends and campaign donors have gotten the vaccine. If you think they have I own some beach front property in New Mexico I would like to sell you. It is going at fire sale prices.

  8. This a out right disgrace. The members of Congress should have been the first people given the shot. They work for us and they should take the bullet for the citizens of the United States of America. Look at the money they make, the retirement package and health. These are the biggest theives in America and the public continues to vote these ? In.

    If they are for themselves, then why do you vote for them?

    They think you all are stupid. The more money they give you, the harder the laugh at you.

    Wake Up.

    Good Luck.

  9. The corrupt politicians of the US Congress always exempt themselves from any bad legislation they plan to pass or push through Presidential executive orders. They did this with the Ponzi scheme of social security, they have done it with insider trading on stocks, they have done it with Obama Care, they have effectively done it with gun control as the have body guards who carry guns, and now they are trying to force vaccine mandates on us while exempting themselves and their staff. They know that these experimental vaccines are dangerous and most likely will cause long term side effects and do not want that for themselves.
    Question, if Biden is exempting Congress and their staff from the vaccines do you really believe he or any of his family, friends and campaign donors have gotten the vaccine. If you think they have I own some beach front property in New Mexico I would like to sell you. It is going at fire sale prices.

  10. we will not comply what’s good for the goose is good for the gander we the people are just like Texas don’t mess with us

    1. NO, it’s ROTTEN to the ceiling beams and beyond!
      But then, THAT’S just the Democrats being Democrats. EVIL SQUARED TIMES A MILLION!

  11. Well now ain’t “we” special ?
    First, This demand from the ruling class is not legal
    Second, We somehow have a dimwit illegally sitting in the Oval Office, (Trespassing)
    Third, This is a Constitutional Republic learn it and obey!

  12. His fraudulency can take a flying leap off the tallest DC building, don’t ever fall in line with this evil scheme, I will sue the crap out, of and win, anyone, who tries to make my family take this biological experiment and everyone should do the same , if you don’t know where to turn go to americasfrontlinedoctors.com and find a vetted lawyer for this purpose but you need to be willing to get fired , don’t ever quit.

  13. What’s it going to take for the citizens of the United States to say enough is enough and revolt against a tyrannical Government that openly has different standards for themselves the elite and the common tax paying assholes.

  14. America is now ruled by a tyrant. History is full of the tyranny these egomaniacs have perpetrated on the world under the guise that everything they do is only for the best, but for whom?? North Korea is looking more and more similar every day with Biden as chief commissar. How many people will wind up in COVID concentration camps because they dared to believe that they were living in a “free” country and could decide their own destiny? This is just the beginning folks. It can and will only get worse as history has proven. Enjoy America while you can and try to fondly remember it as it once was, because those days are over!!!

    1. DAMNIT!, you are SO Right. We are Now on the natural course of DETERIORATION for an Infected, SICK society. THANK YOU, Democrats!

  15. This jab is nothing more and nothing less than control of the citizens. Period, end of story!
    Take it if you want. Have your kids take it if you want.
    Have your newborn take it if you want.
    Leave me alone. My body, my choice!

  16. It should be emphasized that Congressional Staffers, e.g. at least 50 + times the number of Congress people are also exempt. This is dishonest, but is typical government bs. It is a greater scandal that they do almost nothing worthwhile. I was surprised that when the criminals in Texas flew off to DC on their junket, they still received their salaries. If their salaries had been withheld, you can be sure they would have returned to Austin in a heartbeat. Unfortunately, they take their marching orders from other criminals in Congress and the White House, even though allegedly they take an oath to to the People to uphold the Constitution, which they have confused with the Communist Manifesto. Americans need to wake up, but alas too many of them are asleep or wasting their lives watching TV, Sports and Movies.

  17. Stop look and listen! It was called propaganda during World War 1 & 2. Chinese virus is biowarfare and the propaganda is the media feeding lies of Fauci, and demon-crats. Natural immunity has worked for all of time. How do you even believe any of these power hungry, controlling evil people actually were vaccinated with what they are trying to mandate. Wake up America! Stop following the sheep-peoples, research yourselves, and listen to your own intuition. All these tales, are to take you off the real issue – FRAUD – BETRAYAL = SOCIALISM!

    1. The “masses” have ALWAYS been Easily Controlled IDIOTS. With the nearly Complete dumbed-down average Stooge citizen in our country, and all of the moron immigrants that make-up of Our population NOW, it’s a piece o’ cake for the EVIL TYRANTS to Flourish and wield their WICKED POWER.

  18. It’s bad enough that Biden, a known serial liar, sexual predator, child molester, plagiarist, and famously corrupt career politician with dementia, is anywhere near the White House…but now the leftist fascism of he and his socialist dimocrats is swiftly gathering momentum as they desperately seek absolute control of every institution.

    Rise up America, for this is the tyranny the 2nd Amendment was created for!

    1. NAIL ON THE HEAD!, Will!
      This is NOW Out of Control! That Steaight owta Hell AOC, Bernie, Elizabeth and ALL of ‘em SHOUKD HAVE TARGETS on them.
      And it’s a SHOOT TO KILL game!

  19. this is the tragedy of the constitutional republic. it should have been mandated that all native, or green card holders be a subject of the law. if this had been an original thought the corruption and injustices caused by the unintended consequences of the congress, and the wealth they produce for family and friends would be just a speculation.

  20. Talk about a Double Standard!!!!
    from what I am seeing from this Administration is this group who is suppose to make wise decisions on the behalf of the American People. With this massive about getting a shot or be punished. Almost in the same article the Administration says Congress and staff members are EXEMPT FROM THIS MANDATE. The same time all of the others who came to America Illegaling and all the Refugees from Afghanistan are not required to do anything to help to stop the COVID from spreading. They are Exempt. Hard working Americans and the lower class of Citizens who have to pay the price and suffer through all of the Corrupt Ideas put out for our safety.
    DOUBLE STANDARD. “WHERE IS THE AMERICA FIRST” IT is us WHO PAY THE ENTIRE GOVERNMENT SCHEME.
    The way I see it is to go to Mexico and the cross the border without papers.

  21. Of course they’re exempt, someone needs to be alive to rule over the zombie nation. And of course The Wicked Witch of the West Coast can’t answer a question. She’s the master of deflection.

  22. Most members of congress belong at receiving end of lethal injection. THEY SHALL MAKE NO LAWS THAT THEY ARE EXEMPT FROM. THATS TREASON.

  23. Biden can take his executive order and shove it where the sun doesn’t shine.
    If anyone should have the vaccine first it should be the Feds. If something goes drastically wrong, well nothing is lost.

  24. Hum now ain’t that something and surely neverTRUMP planned

    and who knew??, Oh I did and still do

    and until our US President TRUMP is reinstated Biblically sworn back in our US Presidential Powers

    as immediately as possible or NOW, the hateful racist neverTRUMP politicians will continue their

    hellish reign tryanny of power will be enslaving endless

    and that is very shameful because it needs to be very shameful

    🥰💥👍CHRISTrumpOwens and all their US TRUMPlican Lawmakers successfully US 2020-2036 Reelected Landslide
    Amen & Amen👍❤️🥰

  25. I hope that each one of them that does NOT get vaccinated, gets sick. They don’t have to die to make me happy, just get really, really SICK.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  26. The article said: “Members of Congress, nearly 31,000 congressional staffers, and an additional 30,000 federal court system workers won’t be required to submit to the mandate because Biden is implementing it through an executive order, which does not impact employees of the legislative branch.”

    Can someone please explain WHY DOESN’T an executive order impact employees of the legislative branch? What is the purpose of keeping any executive order from affecting THEM? This makes no sense.

    1. It’s your typical “Do as I say, not as I do” rule of the Democrat Party. Hypocrisy rules the country now.

  27. Rules for us peons but not for the ruling elite. We are here only so they can tax us to death and rule us to take the vaccine with unknown side effects and obey, obet, obey. This ruse worked in Venezuela so it should work here. Stupid sheep follow a Judas goat to their slaughter don’t they!

  28. “but members of Congress and their staff will reportedly be exempt from the new reform”. Smells like the communist china population control has been released on all others in our population and the communist democrat cult party, paid by the Chinese are exempt!

  29. When unvaccinated, are a threat to vaccinated, and mandate doesn’t include the self described elite, there’s something wrong, with the big picture! The idiots that are running this Country are singling out 80 million people left, who have common sense! Obama’s inner circle have stated that we’re just waiting on certain people to die, and illegal immigrants are coming through what used to be our southern border, and they are exempt, there is something wrong!

  30. The problems in America are far more serious than 80 million people refusing to be vaccinated, we have a senile old man, who is a false storefront puppet, for an Obama third term, we have federal law enforcement leaders taking large sums of Soros drug money, and an unelected drug lord telling the puppet President what to do! We passed fed up, when Obama was legally POTUS. Nobody gets a 3rd term in America, except a Democrat Communist they cheated to put back in power! There is only one road back to the America, that was America, and that is an America without Soros, and Obama, might as well get rid of the treasonous DNC as well.

  31. Soros owns the media in America, satan roams to, and fro, through the air in this world, and when God summons satan, he comes a runnin! Evil lurks in America, and if you don’t believe in God, that doesn’t make God a bit less real, and Gods wrath is coming! When you take God, out of America and try to replace Him, with satan, you are begging to be in awe! Soros and Obama rigged the National Presidential Election, to give Obama a 3rd term, and quite possibly a dictatorship!

  32. George W. Bush, you broke my heart! I backed you for so long, defended you for so long, no I must say to you, so long!

  33. So that’s also applies to the postal service and illegal immigrants. It’s just the nutty serfs that it applies to. Tell them to eff off.

  34. I cannot believe Biden has the nerve to exempt Congress from his vaccine mandate. You think he would realize how he is being labeled a “dictator”, not a President for all the people.
    Just listen to the college football fans chants
    this past weekend. They speak for many of us in
    the USA.

  35. Why is it that with the THOUSANDS of deaths and horrific side effects being reported and the spreading of the virus AFTER the injections and the hospitals full of those who got the shot(s) then got the virus……………

    ……. WHY HAVEN’T ANY OF THE BIG NOISE POLITICAL ELITE BEEN REPORTED TO HAVE SUFFERED THE SIDE EFFECTS, BEEN HOSPITALIZED OR DIED?????

    Could it be because they’re FORCING it into We the Peasants while secretly skipping it all themselves? Now why might that be? Do they know something about that chemical soup that we aren’t being told????

    Something just STINKS HERE!!!!

  36. This just keeps getting better and better…if you are a fan of Communism! The political elite are not being subjected to forced drug injections while the average citizen either allows themselves to be injected with government mandated drugs or lose their ability to earn a living. While Joe Biden doesn’t listen to American citizens, it sure looks like he’s listening to what Communist China is telling him.

  37. We are all vulnerable to get Covid, so HOW can he “pick & choose” who MUST get vaccinated? Maybe it should be all Blacks, all Whites but NO Spanish speaking people. Or, maybe just people who don’t agree with him. Welcome to Dem lunacy & slavery.

  38. So all American citizens should be vaccinated. But Congress not ? They should not be exempt. If we have to be vaccinated. They have to be vaccinated to. This is un American. We are not sheep. We are people. And Biden`s cronies, are a bunch of fucken assholes.

  39. Why are members of congress exempt ??? They should be the first group to be mandated, since they’re the ones making all the noise about the vaccine. If the government really cared they’d shut down the southern border. Our government needs to be overthrown by we the people. Enough is enough.

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