Originally Posted by
FXLAX
You said federal employee though. Ask anyone who works for a federal court and ask them where their paycheck comes from. Answer, the federal government, who gets that money specifically from the US Treasury department, who gets its money from taxpayers.
In this context I meant federal employees of the executive branch.
The number of actual employees in the judicial and legislative branches is pretty tiny compared to the executive.
Originally Posted by
FXLAX
You really think that the Biden administration feels they have the legal authority to mandate private companies who happen to employ an arbitrary number of employees to force their employees to get injected against their will or be fired yet not mandate the same for federal employees of the other two branches of government?
I've said countless times that I *personally* think the contractor mandate as applied to airline employees is over-reach. If they mandated it for contractors who have regular, ongoing contact with federal employees and customers of federal agencies (ex a security guard who screens people entering a federal building) that would make sense. But the mechanics who fix our planes have no contact with federal employees. It might be reasonable to mandate it for CS agents and FA's.
Whether it's legal or not has nothing to do with what I think, and will be determined soon enough.
But the legal issues are clearly different for the other two branches. That's constitutional fact and there's no point arguing that one. I'm not sure why the legislative hasn't done their own mandate, since both houses are controlled by the same party as the executive.