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Published December 17, 2021

Pentagon stops implementing vaccine mandate for defense contractors

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U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about the coronavirus pandemic and vaccine mandate on October 14, 2021 in Washington, DC. [Photo: Getty Images/Drew Angerer]
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about the coronavirus pandemic and vaccine mandate on October 14, 2021 in Washington, DC. [Photo: Getty Images/Drew Angerer]

The department has stopped implementing the vaccine mandate for federal contractors.

WASHINGTON—The race to vaccinate defense workers is now at a standstill, after a US district court judge blocked the implementation of the vaccine mandate for federal contractors last week.

The Defense Department issued a Dec. 9 memo instructing its contracting officers to stop enforcing President Joe Biden’s Sept. 9 executive order, which required workers for federal contractors to be vaccinated for COVID-19 by Jan. 18. The memo was first reported . . . [Read the rest of this story on Breaking Defense].

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