Originally Posted by rickair7777

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.



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.