Today, we're going to talk about Biden's vaccine mandate for businesses and the GOP's

response to it, and a pretty exciting update about the For The People Act.

I interview someone on the right, which doesn't happen often, the lieutenant governor of

Georgia, Jeff Duncan, about his own state's voter suppression bill SB202, and the future

of the Republican Party.

And I'm joined by the new president of the AFL CIO Liz Schuller to talk about the top priorities

of the biggest federation of unions in the country.

I'm Brian Tyler Cohen, and you're listening to No Lie.

With COVID cases having risen about 300% from this time last year, even despite a vaccine

being readily available, Joe Biden's issued a sweeping new vaccine mandate, requiring

all employers with more than 100 employees to either be vaccinated or test weekly for

the virus, which will cover about 80 million Americans.

Vaccines are also going to be mandatory at healthcare facilities that receive federal

medical or Medicaid, totaling another 17 million workers, and finally, the mandate extends

to employees of the executive branch and all contractors who do business with the federal

government.

So in total, roughly 100 million people are going to be affected by this mandate.

And before I get into anything else, here is the most important point here.

These mandates work.

Consider the fact that most vaccines are compulsory for public schools.

In the 1970s, there were tens of thousands of cases of measles by 2005 after the measles

vaccine became mandatory in schools.

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