Biden has not said whether he will sign the bill, and called it a “mistake” to roll back the vaccine mandate.
The Senate on Thursday approved a $858 billion military spending bill that passed the House last week and would revoke the military’s Covid-19 vaccine requirement, sending the legislation to the desk of President Joe Biden, who opposes the vaccine rollback and has not said whether he will sign the bill.The legislation, known as the National Defense Authorization Act, passed the Senate 83-11 on Thursday.
Included in the National Defense Authorization Act, a must-pass package of legislation that authorizes annual military appropriations, was a Republican-backed initiative to end the military’s Covid-19 vaccine policy implemented in August 2021. The Senate voted down an amendment that would have also reinstated military members who were fired for refusing to be vaccinated against the coronavirus; the House failed to pass the amendment when it approved the National Defense Authorization Act last week.
A second amendment proposed by Sen. Joe Manchin that would fast-track the federal approval process for issuing permits for energy-related projects failed; the House did not take up the provision.Congress delayed passage of the bill amid a partisan debate over the reversal of the military Covid-19 vaccine mandate, but ultimately moved forward with the provision in a bid to recruit Republicans who said they would vote against the legislation without the vaccine rollback.
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