President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday to restore more than 8, 000 people of the U. S. army who were “unjustly discharged” under the Biden-Harris leadership for refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccination.
The White House stated in a press release from Monday that Trump’s executive order directs Homeland Security Kristi Noem and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to “make reinstatement available to all members of the military ( active and reserve ) who were discharged solely for refusing to receive the COVID-19 vaccine and who request be reinstated.”
” The vaccination mandate was an cruel, overbroad, and totally unnecessary stress on our service people”, the White House added in Monday’s press transfer. Despite the years of service to our society, the military unfairly discharged those who refused the immunization,” More, the military failed to offer many of them an provision that they should have received. It is late for the federal government to pay any unlawful dismissals.
More than 8, 000 services people who were fired as a result of President Joe Biden’s questionable COVID-19 vaccine mandate will be able to get full-back pay and benefits as a result of Trump’s executive order. Under the administrative order, services people will also be reinstated to their former positions.
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Over 8, 000 U.S. military personnel were discharged between 2021 and 2023, according to a fact sheet from the White House that was released Monday,” only because of their COVID-19 vaccination position.” Just 43 of the soldiers who refused to receive the COVID-19 vaccination returned to military support after the vaccination mandate was repealed in 2023, according to the White House.
The White House claimed that the Department of Defense’s “healthy company members” were likely to have a chilling effect on recruitment by rejecting the COVID-19 immunization, with around 41, 000 recruits missing out on their social recruiting targets in FY2023.
Trump’s professional purchase comes after the leader announced during his inaugural address last year that he would be reinstating the army discharged under the Biden-Harris government’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
Trump stated in his inaugural address that he would reinstate any service members who had been unfairly expelled from our defense for violating the COVID vaccination mandate with full back pay.
