Failed 2012 Republican Presidential candidate Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) just stabbed U.S. military members in the back.
The one-time GOP Presidential nominee, turned junior Senator from Utah is now the face of the RINO faction of the GOP.
And Romney just proved that with one vote on the National Defense Authorization Act.
In the summer of 2021, President Joe Biden instituted a COVID-19 vaccination mandate for the nation’s armed forces.
The mandate forced federal employees – including U.S. military members – to inject experimental medicine into their bodies whether they want it or not.
President Bident laid down the ultimatum – get vaccinated, or lose your livelihood.
“This is not about red states and blue states, it’s literally about life and death,” Biden said of his mandate. “I know people talk about freedom. I learned growing up … with freedom comes responsibility. The decision to be unvaccinated impacts someone else. Unvaccinated people spread the virus.”
Of course, it’s now almost universally recognized that vaccination status had no bearing on the spread of COVID-19.
But at a time when the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marines are failing to hit recruitment goals, several thousands of troops lost their jobs for refusing to take a Biden mandated COVID jab.
Biden’s military vaccine mandate was finally rescinded this month in the behemoth $858-Billion National Defense Authorization defense spending bill.
Many in the Senate GOP Caucus rightly wanted to go a step further and restore those military members who lost their jobs because of it.
Republicans Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin offered an amendment to the bill that would “reinstate troops discharged for refusing to be vaccinated for COVID-19, provide them back pay and service time, and prevent the Pentagon from reinstating the vaccine mandate without congressional authorization.”
Unfortunately for the military men and women separated from service due to Biden’s vax mandate, the amendment only received 40 of the 60 votes needed for adoption.
Senate voted against Sens. @RonJohnsonWI & @tedcruz Amendment to reinstate nearly 8,400 service members who were discharged for refusing to get COVID vaccine
Vote was 40-54
4 GOPs (Sens. Cassidy, Collins, Romney & Rounds) joined all 50 Dems in opposing adding Amendment to NDAA pic.twitter.com/hAJU6AOrJn— Mona Salama (@MonaSalama_) December 16, 2022
Every single Senator that caucuses with the Democrats voted against giving justice to military members who were wronged by the White House.
And joining with the Democrats were four RINOs.
Utah’s Sen. Mitt Romney led the way, along with South Dakota’s Sen. Mike Rounds, Louisiana’s Sen. Bill Cassidy and Maine’s Sen. Susan Collins all joined with their colleagues across the aisle to stab former military members in the back.
“It is outrageous that the U.S. military is firing young service members who choose not to get vaccinated,” Republicans Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky and Sen. Rick Scott of Florida wrote in an op-ed. “There is no justification. The pandemic has been declared over for months. Schools, businesses and local governments have belatedly and finally opened. Nothing makes sense — not even the science. The CDC acknowledges the COVID vaccine does not stop transmission, so the argument that the mandate will stop incapacitating spread in the close quarters of military barracks is not applicable.”
Apparently, Romney, along with Rounds, Cassidy and Collins – as well as every Democrat – isn’t willing to follow the real science.
