On Thursday, President Joe Biden released a statement addressing his administration’s vaccine and testing mandate for employees at companies with 100 or more workers. 
Biden stated, “while I would have much preferred that requirements not become necessary, too many people remain unvaccinated for us to get out of this pandemic for good,” going on to claim that he “instituted requirements – and they are working.”
Biden also claimed that “[v]accination requirements are good for the economy. They not only increase vaccination rates but they help send people back to work – as many as 5 million American workers. They make our economy more resilient in the face of COVID and keep our businesses open.”
The president’s <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/11/04/statement-by-president-joe-biden-on-vaccination-requirements/">statement</a> continued: 
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Today, the Labor Department issued its rule requiring COVID-19 vaccinations for companies with 100 or more employees. If you work for one of these companies you will either need to get vaccinated or test at least weekly.
Also today, the Department of Health and Human Services released its rule to ensure that our nation’s healthcare workers are vaccinated. No one should be at risk when they seek medical care. 
Together, these rules will cover about 100 million Americans – two-thirds of all workers in America.
</blockquote>
As <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/04/business/biden-vaccine-mandate-osha.html">reported</a> by The New York Times, the Biden administration is requiring that &#8220;large companies have until Jan. 4 to ensure that their workforces are fully vaccinated.”
There are also new requirements for workers in healthcare industries. “All 17 million workers at health care facilities receiving either Medicare or Medicaid funding must be vaccinated by Jan. 4,” the Times added. 
A summary of the <a href="https://www.osha.gov/sites/default/files/publications/OSHA4162.pdf">rule</a> released by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) stated that it is “an emergency temporary standard (ETS) to minimize the risk of COVID-19 transmission in the workplace.”
It also stated that the “ETS requires employers to determine the vaccination status of each employee, obtain acceptable proof of vaccination, maintain records of each employee’s vaccination status, and maintain a roster of each employee’s vaccination status.”
The summary addressed masks, as well, stating that the ETS “requires employers to ensure that each employee who is not fully vaccinated wears a face covering when indoors or when occupying a vehicle with another person for work purposes, except in certain limited circumstances.”
The Times also noted, &#8220;Companies that fail to comply with the rule may be subject to fines, depending on how frequently they violate it and whether violations are intentional, a White House official said. An OSHA penalty is typically $13,653 for every serious violation.&#8221;
On Thursday, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-the-daily-wire-challenges-biden-administration-vaccine-mandate">filed a lawsuit</a> against the federal government over the requirement. 
&#8220;The Dhillon Law Group, Inc. and Alliance Defending Freedom filed the legal challenge on behalf of The Daily Wire in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit,&#8221; The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-the-daily-wire-challenges-biden-administration-vaccine-mandate">noted</a>.
“The Daily Wire will not comply with President Biden’s tyrannical vaccine mandate, and we are suing the Biden Administration to put a stop to their gross overreach,” said Daily Wire Co-Founder and Co-CEO Jeremy Boreing. “President Biden, the federal government, social media, and the establishment media have conspired to rob Americans of their freedoms in the name of public health. They have broken faith with the American people through conflicting messaging, false information, and by suppressing data and perspectives with which they disagree.” 
“The federal government lacks the legal authority to compel private employers to play the role of vaccine or COVID police, lack the police power to force private employees to undergo medical treatment, and may not ignore constitutional limits on its ability to regulate every aspect of our lives,” said Dhillon Law Group’s partner Harmeet K. Dhillon. “The Biden administration’s attempt to impose this unprecedented and unlawful federal medical mandate on the U.S. workforce without considering the public’s views is arbitrary, capricious, unsupported by the evidence, and would produce a willfully ignorant rule,”


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