Biden stance on NDAA still unclear after Senate includes language to remove vaccine mandate in US military
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The Senate has forced President Biden into the position of having to decide between the U.S. defense budget and the vaccine mandate in the ranks in latest National Defense Authorization Act.
Top administration officials, including Biden and his Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, have thrown their weight behind keeping the mandate, arguing it is a matter of troop readiness and therefore national security. Caitlin McFall is a Reporter at Fox News Digital covering Politics, U.S. and World news.
"The president still supports the secretary of defense's position that repealing the mandate is not in the best interest of our troops. It's not in the best interest of our military. It is a health and readiness issue," he told reporters Friday morning.