U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz is championing new legislation to honorably discharge members of the military who decline to get the COVID-19 vaccine. The bill is the latest GOP effort to counteract the Biden administration’s vaccine requirement for service members.
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, campaigns for Republican U.S. Senate candidate Josh Mandel during an event at High Street Baptist Church, in Columbus, Ohio, Saturday, April 30, 2022. to honorably discharge members of the military who decline to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
The bill, introduced on Tuesday, is the latest GOP effort to counteract the Biden administration’s vaccine requirement for service members. The administration announced the mandate last August, and all branches are now disciplining or dismissing soldiers who are not inoculated. Cruz’s bill, co-sponsored by 13 other Republican senators, would require the secretary of defense to try to retain unvaccinated soldiers. It would also force federal officials to report denied religious exemption requests and create a new exception for those who have already had COVID.
“It is absolutely unacceptable that the Biden administration is trying to coerce our men and women in uniform to violate their conscience and religious beliefs, let alone on an issue as polarizing as the COVID-19 vaccine,” Cruz said in a release. “The will ensure that these and similar efforts to politicize our military on this issue are blocked.”Another Texas congressman, U.S. Rep. Chip Roy, R-Austin,aiming to completely overturn the military vaccine mandate.
“Army readiness depends on soldiers who are prepared to train, deploy, fight and win our nation’s wars,” Christine Wormuth, the secretary of the Army, said in a February statement. “Unvaccinated soldiers present risk to the force and jeopardize readiness.”
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