Austin: The Governor of the Republic of Texas on Thursday told Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin that the state would not direct members of the National Guard to comply with the Biden Administration order that requires all members of the military to be vaccinated for a growing mandate.
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Greg Abbott, who has been one of the nation’s governor who spoke most in the refusal of the vaccine mandate in any form, said the Texas National Guard in October that more than 20,000 members were included in the executive order that prohibited government entities.
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Texas has the largest national guard contingent of any country and has not revealed how many members are vaccinated.
Abbott’s latest beef with the Biden government came after five other GOP governors sent Austin a lighter letter this week urged him to reconsider the requirements for guard members on the state’s active task, when they were under the orders of their governor but still funded by the federal government.
The Governor of the Oklahoma Republic has sued the Department of Defense on the vaccine mandate, and Abbott shows that Texas can do the same.
“If the guards who are not vaccinated suffer bad consequences in the country of Texas, they will only have the President of Biden and his government to be blamed,” Abbott said.
Both Abbott and Guard Texas immediately responded to questions about the number of vaccinated members.
Lisa Lawrence, spokesman for the Department of Defense, said they would respond to letters from Abbott and other governors in time.
Austin has said repeatedly that getting a vaccine is very important to maintain hathy and ready forces that can be prepared to maintain the nation.
He decided that guardians who rejected Covid-19 vaccination would be banned from exercises and training funded by the federal government needed to maintain their guard’s status.
Military officials said on Thursday that 98% of their active task forces had received at least one mandatory dose of mandatory coronavirus vaccines.
Thousands of military members seek exceptions or refuse shots.
But overall, the percentage of troops – very active in charge – which quickly get shots exceeding the national average.
According to the control centers and prevention of disease, around 72% of US populations aged 18 or more than at least one shot.
In Texas, around 70% of the population aged 5 years or more are vaccinated, according to state data.
Abbott has placed more than 1,000 members of the guard along the US-Mexico border and gave them unusual strength to capture migrants at the cost of entering without permission.
In October, he extended the ban on vaccine mandates to the private business under the executive order.
However, the legislative-dominated legislature of the country does not approve the size that exceeds the prohibition to become law.