Since the federal judge’s ruling, the White House has maintained the mandate for federal workers is within its legal authority. However, they said the same thing about the OSHA mandate that later met its demise at the hands of the Supreme Court.
Nevertheless, the Justice Department declared it will seek to appeal the ruling from the Texas judge.
More bad news for the Biden administration
With the president’s vaccine mandates facing consistent overturns and halts by courts, he’s not winning in the court of public opinion, either.
According to a poll run by CBS News/YouGov earlier this month, 40% of the country believes Biden reached too far in attempts to get individuals immunized against COVID.
Conversely, 34% opined that Biden handled the situation in the proper manner. Finally, 26% of the country believes the 46th president should have employed even more stringent standards.
Biden is correspondingly looking at an approval rating of 33%. Additional polls show pluralities of Americans as unhappy with the current direction of the United States.
