Biden defended the new measures to boost immunization and blamed Republican governors: “This is not a game.”

US President Joe Biden defended himself on Friday your new vaccines mandate, which affects the majority of workers in the country’s private sector, in the face of threats from several Republican governors to sue him to arrest him.

“Go ahead, try it”, Biden said when asked if it was possible for these conservative politicians to sue their government, during a visit to a public school in Washington’s Brookland neighborhood.

Republican governors of states like South Carolina, Georgia and South Dakota They said they would take legal action against the warrant announced by Biden on Thursday, a forthcoming rule that will affect all companies with 100 or more employees, in which at least 80 million people work.

These companies must make sure your workers are vaccinated with the full schedule or, if not, force them to present a negative test result at least once a week.

“I am very disappointed that these Republican governors have taken lightly the health of our children, the health of their communities. We are dealing with something real. It’s not a game “Biden pointed out.

The president assured that the mandate he announced has the support of scientific community country, and didn’t seem worried that he might end up being struck down by the courts.

Until now, the White House had avoided imposing vaccine mandates that went beyond federal government employees, and still argues it will not force the entire population of the country to be vaccinated, which legal experts say would likely be unconstitutional.

However, the expansion of the delta variant, which has triggered hospitalizations and deaths of those who refuse to be vaccinated, and threatening to slow economic recovery, convinced Biden to move from advocacy to action and demand action from the nation’s largest companies.

The ad generated Mixed reactions from the companies concerned: many welcomed it and are grateful that the mandate does not come from the company itself, but from the federal government; while others have shown skeptical on how they can implement it.

The White House’s Covid-19 response coordinator, Jeffrey Zients, assured at a press conference that the mandate would be made public “In the next weeks”, in the form of an emergency rule issued by the Ministry of Labor.

According to legal experts, the Ministry of Labor has the power to issue such a measure on the basis of its power to regulate safety at workAnd as the mandate leaves open the possibility of not vaccinating those who undergo regular testing, it seems unlikely that the Republican claims will succeed.

(With information from EFE)

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