Biden heads to Chicago to push his vaccine mandates for 100 million US workers in private firms and will insist they work with his multi-trillion dollar spending package still in limbo
Joe Biden is heading to Chicago on Thursday to promote his new vaccine mandates after delaying the trip to work on brokering a deal on the budget and infrastructure packages, which are still not passed.
The president will tour and speak at a Clayco construction site in Elk Grove Village, Illinois where he will promote his new Executive Order mandating all companies with at least 100 employees require their workers to provide proof of vaccination against COVID-19.
It is still unclear when Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), which falls under the Department of Labor and has the authority to issue the workplace vaccine mandate, is going to fully implement Biden's order.
The order, if implemented, will likely impact 100 million working Americans in the midst of a U.S. workers' shortage that has some companies pleading for applicants with incentives and bonuses.
A Wall Street Journal op-ed earlier this week details that the mandate is essentially 'nonexistent' because it has not actually been implemented but is 'effective at compelling industries and companies into compliance, as it leaves room for any eventual issuance to target noncompliant entities.'
President Joe Biden is heading to a suburb of Chicago, Illinois on Thursday to promote his new vaccinate mandate for workers at companies with at least 100 employees
The president salutes as he boards Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on Thursday as he departs for Elk Grove Village, Illinois where he will will tour and speak at a Clayco construction site
'This implied cudgel is particularly effective on industries and companies that are dependent on federal spending or the goodwill of federal regulators,' the editorial continues. 'The nonexistent mandate also allows so-inclined state and local governments and companies to issue their own mandates, seemingly in lockstep with Washington.'
Some companies have already started requiring employees to provide proof of vaccination or have given timelines for workers to get the jab – or jabs.
When issuing the order in early September, Biden wrote: 'The health and safety of the Federal workforce, and the health and safety of members of the public with whom they interact, are foundational to the efficiency of the civil service.'
He planned to go to a Chicago suburb last week to promote the new order, but canceled the trip last minute to remain in Washington, D.C. as congressional Democrats fought over the budget package.
Biden met with Democratic Senators Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona last week to attempt to bring their number up to meet the rest of the party.
They were not convinced and the package still remains in limbo.
Biden isn't sticking around this time to try and help through the rift.
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