US House passes defense bill scrapping COVID vaccine mandate
Rep. Adam Smith, Democratic chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, told colleagues that the decision to impose the vaccine mandate was the right call at the time.
More than 8,000 active-duty service members were discharged for failure to obey a lawful order when they refused the vaccine. Service leaders have said that the number of troops who requested religious or other exemptions to any of those required vaccines — prior to the COVID pandemic — was negligible.
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