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The Biden administration is facing an internal debate over whether to impose vaccine mandates for air travel, with President Biden's chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci saying he would support a mandate but the White House claiming a new policy isn't forthcoming.
The potential of a mandate for domestic air travel would be fiercely opposed by Republicans and the travel industry and could add to the pushback Biden has received over his mandate on COVID-19 vaccines and testing for companies with at least 100 employees.
The White House sees the mandate on such businesses as politically popular, but it has run into opposition from GOP governors who have threatened to sue.
The administration could see a mandate to be vaccinated to fly as an issue that might find some support, but it also risks being seen as government overreach.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/white-house-debates-vaccines-for-air-travel/ar-AAOBwex
Do it.
70sEraVet
(3,430 posts)I would think the airline companies would welcome such a mandate from the government, because it keeps them from looking like the bad guys. And if the end result is that more Americans get vaccinated, then more Americans will be willing to travel.
Shanti Shanti Shanti
(12,047 posts)Hey, maybe MORE people would fly if the infected anti-vaxxers were left out!
Airlines +hotels + rental cars, vaccinated only!
Sounds like a marketing strategy, could boost sales😀😀
empedocles
(15,751 posts)BannonsLiver
(16,162 posts)We already got one.
PuppyBismark
(593 posts)I will not fly now that many on the plane are not vaccinated.
LetMyPeopleVote
(144,005 posts)Vaccine mandates are legal and that idiot Madison Cawthorn is wrong about the law. I would feel more comfortable flying if the other passengers were vaccinated
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