GOP Senators Agitate for Vote To Repeal Vaccine Mandate for Troops

A group of Republican senators said they would try to block the annual defense policy bill unless they’re allowed to vote on repealing the Defense Department’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

“I think the policy of discharging people simply because they refuse to get this vaccine at this time makes no sense,” Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said Wednesday during a press conference at the Capitol. “We in Congress have the ability to change this policy…I want to urge DOD to change your policy. It literally is insane, I think, to drive men...