President Joe Biden will sign the National Defense Authorization Act 'this week,' the White House said on Monday, resulting in the end of the Pentagon's coronavirus vaccine mandate.
"So like every NDAA, and I've said this a couple of times over the past 10 days, has some provisions we support and some we do not. Clearly, the president was opposed to rolling back the vaccine mandate, but we saw that Republicans in Congress decided that they [would] rather fight against the health and well-being of the troops than protecting them," Jean-Pierre said.
Pentagon deputy spokeswoman Sabrina Singh informed reporters earlier this month that 98% of active-duty armed forces had received the initial two-shot Pfizer or Moderna vaccine or the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which fulfilled the DOD's mandate. There is no mandate for service members to get a COVID-19 booster. Roughly 8,400 troops have been separated over their refusal to get the shot.
The Senate passed the NDAA last week by a vote of 83 to 11, while the House passed it earlier this month with a
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