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FIRST ON FOX: Fox News Digital has learned that Senator Ted Cruz, R-Texas, will introduce a bill to reinstate and pay service members who were fired over the military’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate as the Senate’s funding bill looks to strike the policy.
A source familiar with the senator’s thinking told Fox News Digital that Cruz will applaud this year’s National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that includes a portion of his bill, the AMERICANS Act, nixing the Biden administration’s military COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
The source tells Fox News Digital that Cruz will also introduce legislation regarding the other portions of his AMERICANS Act not included in the NDAA that would reinstate military members fired over the vaccine mandate and give them back pay.
The bill would also require the Department of Defense to accommodate unvaccinated service members. The source said that the bill’s aims will be a core part of the senator’s advocacy next year as Cruz looks to push the bill through.
“The removal and reprimand of our service members during the largest land war in Europe since World War II, while in the midst of a recruiting crisis, may very well be the most irrational decision made by a sitting president,” Cruz told Fox News Digital. “The advancement of this mandate repeal is a significant victory for every soldier, sailor, airman and Marine out there willing to defend our country, as well as their families.”… (Read more)
