Matt Kibbe is joined by Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) to discuss the bloated end-of-year budget that always keeps Congress in town right up until Christmas. This year, it’s particularly grim, as the bill contains funding to implement the Biden administration’s unconstitutional vaccine mandate.

While many Republicans are hoping the courts will strike down the mandate, this creates a dangerous precedent in which Congress abdicates its responsibility to the voters, ceding that power to unelected judges. While there’s a good chance that the vaccine mandate will not be allowed to stand, it doesn’t excuse the legislative branch from properly fulfilling its role to rein in the executive power of the president.

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FEE’s Jon Miltimore writes, On Saturday, a federal court halted the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for businesses with 100 or more workers, citing possible ‘grave statutory and constitutional issues.”

White House tells businesses to proceed with vaccine mandate despite court-ordered pause https://t.co/3pXnAS6LYV

— CNBC (@CNBC) November 8, 2021

The emergency stay, issued by the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals, puts a hold on the administration’s requirement that those workers be vaccinated by Jan. 4 or face other measures, such as weekly tests and mask requirements.

Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry had argued the Biden administration ‘could not impose medical procedures on the American people without the checks and balances afforded by the Constitution.’

Maybe the White House should heed the words of a famous American president.

“….when the checks and balances in government and society that protect fundamental freedoms are lost, violence and mass atrocities can result.”

The president? Joe Biden.https://t.co/ywz5Ukhr2X

— Jon Miltimore (@miltimore79) November 9, 2021

On Monday, despite the court’s order, the White House said companies should proceed with President Biden’s vaccine mandate, which carries fines up to $700,000 on companies that do not comply…

The legal battle over vaccine mandates is just heating up. But it’s important to remember that regardless of how the Supreme Court rules, vaccine mandates are unjust and morally wrong because they violate individual rights—the only rights the federal government was charged with protecting.”

Read the entire column.

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