President Joe Biden spoke in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C., on November 3, 2021.
A judge in Texas stopped the Biden administration from implementing an executive order requiring federal employees to be vaccine free.
President Joe Biden's efforts to boost U.S. vaccination rates through sweeping workplace safety rules have been repeatedly stymied in the courts.
Judge Jeffrey Brown, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump, wrote in a 20-page order that Biden's executive order "amounts to a presidential mandate that all federal employees consent to vaccination against COVID-19 or lose their jobs."
The second order will not be enforced because the President's authority is not that broad.
The Supreme Court opinion blocking the federal rule was cited by the judge. The high court voted to allow a separate vaccine mandate for medical facilities that take Medicare or Medicaid payments.
Brown said it was too far to allow the president to require millions of federal employees to undergo a medical procedure without the approval of Congress.
The White House press secretary noted that 98% of federal workers are already vaccine free.
Psaki said they were confident in their legal authority.
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