Florida Sues Biden, NASA Over Vaccine Mandate
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Gov. Ron DeSantis and the state of Florida sued President Joe Biden, NASA, and other government agencies over the "unlawful" COVID-19 vaccine mandates that require federal contractors to get vaccinated, and "threaten" the state's economy. Biden early last month announced plans to impose vaccine mandates on federal employees and businesses with 100 or more employees. Unvaccinated workers must get tested regularly. The Republican governor and state Attorney General Ashley Moody filed the lawsuit, first reported by Fox News, against Biden, NASA, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, and officials within the White House Office of Management and Budget and the Department of Defense over the vaccine mandates.
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The lawsuit was filed Thursday morning in U.S. District Court in the middle district of Florida's Tampa division, Bloomberg News reports. Biden's mandate requires federal contractors to ensure workers are fully vaccinated by Dec. 8. Florida's lawsuit argues that NASA, and others, "frequently contracts with Florida, has current contractual relationships with Florida, and is and will continue to seek to impose the Biden administration’s unlawful requirements to Florida." "Because the government’s unlawful vaccine requirement seeks to interfere with Florida’s employment policies and threaten Florida with economic harm and the loss of federal contracts, the State seeks relief from this Court," the lawsuit states, Fox News reported. The lawsuit says the vaccine mandate would force Florida to require vaccinations of certain state officials who work on projects with federal contractors.
