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James Lankford: on September 9, President Biden told the American people that he was losing patience with them and they needed to get…

On the recordNovember 18, 2021
on September 9, President Biden told the American people that he was losing patience with them and they needed to get vaccinated right now. He laid down a series of Executive orders on Federal employees, on Federal contractors, on companies that had-- individuals that had 100 employees or more, on individuals that worked in any healthcare-related, anything that dealt with Medicare or Medicaid. It reached out to millions of people. He set a date that was within 3 months, knowing full well it would take months to actually write the rule and it would create chaos across the country as everyone tried to figure out how to do this mandate. I fully believe that was the purpose of setting a close deadline; it was because it would have that much chaos in the country dealing with the vaccine mandates. Well, mission accomplished. It has created chaos across our economy and across lots of families. What is the situation right now in America dealing with COVID? We are on the backside of our second peak. We have seen hundreds of thousands of people lose their lives to COVID. We have seen hospitals fill, get back to order; fill again, get back to order. But in the meantime, three vaccines have been developed, multiple different treatments have been developed, a multitude of tests have been developed, which has been the primary issue that we have every year with the flu. We don't panic every year on the flu because we have testing. We have treatment. We have vaccines.…
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James Lankford
Republican · Oklahoma
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Nov 18, 2021

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