Biden orders most US workers get vaxxed — but not illegal border crossers
WASHINGTON — White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Friday confirmed that the government isn’t requiring COVID-19 vaccines for people who illegally cross the US-Mexico border — despite President Biden’s new vaccine mandates for about two-thirds of US workers.
“That’s correct,” Psaki told Fox News reporter Peter Doocy at her daily press briefing.
Psaki gave the curt reply when Doocy asked, “It is a requirement for people at a business with more than 100 people. It is not a requirement for migrants at the southern border. Why?”
She did not elaborate.
Biden’s new vaccine mandates impact federal workers and contractors, employees of private companies of 100 or more people, health care workers and some teachers.
Psaki said that “some of these requirements are the next lever needed to get more people vaccinated.”
In July, more than 212,000 people illegally crossed the southern border, exceeding the more than 180,000 people apprehended in both May and June. Unaccompanied children and some families are allowed to stay in the US, but most single adults are deported under a Trump administration COVID-19 policy.
Biden’s vaccine mandates, announced Thursday, apply to about 100 million Americans. Most federal workers and contractors must get vaccinated if they don’t qualify for religious or medical exceptions. And a new Labor Department rule will require companies and organizations with 100 workers or more to either impose a vaccine mandate or subject staff to weekly testing.
Psaki said businesses would incur fines of up to $13,600 per violation and that businesses should choose the “more cost-effective” option of requiring workers to be vaccinated, rather than eating the cost of weekly testing.
She fended off a reporter’s question about whether the mandate would worsen the already existing struggles of many businesses to recruit low-wage workers. The lack of available workers had been widely blamed on enhanced federal pandemic unemployment benefits that ended this week.
“I understand you may be asking me about smaller businesses, but it’s for employees of 100 and more,” Psaki said.
A recent ABC News/Washington Post poll found that among vaccine refusers, 42 percent said they would rather quit their job than submit to a shot.
In addition to his strict mandate on federal workers and contractors and the looming rule for larger businesses, Biden on Thursday mandated vaccines for about 17 million employees of health care facilities and 300,000 teachers in Head Start programs for poor children.
The Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association came out against Biden’s mandate on federal workers and the American Federation of Government Employees said “[w]e expect to bargain over this change prior to implementation.”
Biden outlined the new mandates after his approval rating tanked in several recent national polls, because of lower support for his pandemic management as the more contagious Delta variant of COVID-19 drives the increase in infections.
WASHINGTON — White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Friday confirmed that the government isn’t requiring COVID-19 vaccines for people who illegally cross the US-Mexico border — despite President Biden’s new vaccine mandates for about two-thirds of US workers.
“That’s correct,” Psaki told Fox News reporter Peter Doocy at her daily press briefing.
Psaki gave the curt reply when Doocy asked, “It is a requirement for people at a business with more than 100 people. It is not a requirement for migrants at the southern border. Why?”
She did not elaborate.
Biden’s new vaccine mandates impact federal workers and contractors, employees of private companies of 100 or more people, health care workers and some teachers.
Psaki said that “some of these requirements are the next lever needed to get more people vaccinated.”
In July, more than 212,000 people illegally crossed the southern border, exceeding the more than 180,000 people apprehended in both May and June. Unaccompanied children and some families are allowed to stay in the US, but most single adults are deported under a Trump administration COVID-19 policy.
Biden’s vaccine mandates, announced Thursday, apply to about 100 million Americans. Most federal workers and contractors must get vaccinated if they don’t qualify for religious or medical exceptions. And a new Labor Department rule will require companies and organizations with 100 workers or more to either impose a vaccine mandate or subject staff to weekly testing.
Psaki said businesses would incur fines of up to $13,600 per violation and that businesses should choose the “more cost-effective” option of requiring workers to be vaccinated, rather than eating the cost of weekly testing.
She fended off a reporter’s question about whether the mandate would worsen the already existing struggles of many businesses to recruit low-wage workers. The lack of available workers had been widely blamed on enhanced federal pandemic unemployment benefits that ended this week.
“I understand you may be asking me about smaller businesses, but it’s for employees of 100 and more,” Psaki said.
A recent ABC News/Washington Post poll found that among vaccine refusers, 42 percent said they would rather quit their job than submit to a shot.
In addition to his strict mandate on federal workers and contractors and the looming rule for larger businesses, Biden on Thursday mandated vaccines for about 17 million employees of health care facilities and 300,000 teachers in Head Start programs for poor children.
The Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association came out against Biden’s mandate on federal workers and the American Federation of Government Employees said “[w]e expect to bargain over this change prior to implementation.”
Biden outlined the new mandates after his approval rating tanked in several recent national polls, because of lower support for his pandemic management as the more contagious Delta variant of COVID-19 drives the increase in infections.
He's such a petty cunt.
On a side note how do you feel about the VA Gov race? Is it even gonna be close? I hear some on the right say Youngkin is pretty strong but I'm thinking VA is too blue now and McAuliffe has too much strength especially being the former Governor...
Youngkin is going to do well in the part of the state where I come from and some of the more rural areas in Northern VA.
But McAuliffe is probably going to smoke him where it matters. Not only did he do a pretty good job when he was in office the first time but our economy is pretty strong. Unemployment is low. Weed has been decriminalized. Etc. Shithead Northam hasn't done a terrible job especially in comparison to a lot of other states.
Renting 'is unaffordable to minimum wage workers in every state,' study finds
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"Across the nation, the average difference between an affordable monthly housing payment and median gross rent is $533," LendingTree said.
The cheapest places for a minimum wage renters are Arkansas, Maine, and West Virginia, where the median rent less than $300 of what they can afford.
Renting 'is unaffordable to minimum wage workers in every state,' study finds
For millions of minimum wage workers, the rent is just too damn high to live in parts of the country, even as policymakers fight for a nationwide "living wage."
The cheapest places for a minimum wage renters are Arkansas, Maine, and West Virginia, where the median rent less than $300 of what they can afford.
States that ended COVID unemployment benefits see no boost in job growth
www.axios.com
States that ended federal unemployment benefits earlier this summer saw August job growth at less than half the rate of states that retained the benefits, according to new data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
States that ended COVID unemployment benefits early see no boost in job growth
Leaders in the largely GOP-led states had insisted that the benefits were discouraging people from work.
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Too bad Trump didn’t fulfill his promise to build a big, beautiful, impenetrable wall!
Did Lauren Boebert write the script for that?
She can't write