Congress is exploring whether to jettison a coronavirus vaccine mandate on military service members as part of a roughly $800 billion bill to reauthorize the Pentagon, a concession meant to win Republican votes on the vital end-of-year package.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy claimed Sunday that he had worked out the arrangement directly with President Biden. While White House officials later disputed that characterization, McCarthy described the compromise as his party’s “first victory” since the GOP won control of the House in the midterm elections.on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures.” “What we’re finding out is they’re kicking out men and women who are serving.
Asked if it would be definitively removed from the bill, known as the National Defense Authorization Act, McCarthy replied: “Yes it will, otherwise the bill will not move.”“I’ve been very clear with the president,” he continued. “The president worked with me on this.” Top aides at the White House confirmed the two men had discussed the matter. But they stressed nothing had been resolved between the president and McCarthy, who is vying to be speaker once the GOP assumes control of the House next year.
“Leader McCarthy raised this with the President, and the President told him he would consider it,” spokeswoman Olivia Dalton said in a statement Sunday. “The Secretary of Defense has recommended retaining the mandate, and the President supports his position. Discussions about the NDAA are ongoing.”On the Hill, meanwhile, congressional aides similarly described the situation as fluid.
The negotiations could be intense as Biden looks to win over must-have GOP votes around a litany of looming deadlines. That includes efforts to fund the government, which is set to run out of money
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