Biden’s Bet on Vaccine Mandates

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🗓️ 13 September 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

As recently as a month ago, President Biden appeared to be skeptical about imposing coronavirus vaccine mandates. Now that skepticism has given way to a suite of policies that aim to force the hands of the unvaccinated. What has changed?

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0:28.4	From New York Times, I'm Michael Barnell.
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0:43.4	Today, behind President Biden's decision to mandate vaccinations for 100 million Americans
0:52.2	and why the political backlash it's already unleashed could ultimately work to his benefit.
0:59.6	I spoke with my colleague White House reporter Jim Tangerstley.
1:05.3	It's Monday, September 13.
1:11.7	In the last time that we talked about government mandates for COVID-19 vaccines on the show,
1:17.3	President Biden was in a very different place.
1:28.4	What has changed?
1:30.8	I think what changed is the president has grown increasingly frustrated.
1:41.4	He embarked on this month's long campaign to try to convince holdouts that no, it's
1:47.0	safe to get vaccinated.
1:48.0	It's the right thing to do.
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