Lankford Fights Back Against Vaccine Mandates

Senator James Lankford (R-OK) brought his Stop Vaccine Mandates Act up for a vote on the Senate floor on October, 20, 2021. Passage of Lankford’s bill was blocked by Democrats. Lankford also spoke on the Senate floor to bring Oklahomans’ struggles with Biden’s vaccine mandate and the ways it is hurting or will hurt them, their families, and their businesses as deadlines loom.

Lankford introduced the Stop Vaccine Mandates Act to repeal President Biden’s Executive Order that mandates vaccines for federal employees and federal contractors. Lankford has been vocal about President Biden’s Executive Order. He sent a letter to President Biden outlining his concerns with the vaccine mandates and has stood firmly with Oklahoma service members, health care workers, federal employees, and private-sector workers who have chosen so far not to be vaccinated. Lankford is also prepared to champion efforts to disapprove of any rules mandating vaccines for private companies and their employees and also introduced the COVID-19 Vaccine Dishonorable Discharge Prevent Act to prohibit the Department of Defense from giving service members a dishonorable discharge for choosing not to receive a COVID-19 vaccine.