{"id":38215,"date":"2021-07-29T18:23:40","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T01:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=38215"},"modified":"2021-07-29T18:23:40","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T01:23:40","slug":"biden-tells-federal-workers-get-vaccinated-or-submit-to-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=38215","title":{"rendered":"Biden tells federal workers: Get vaccinated or submit to testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/lmjqsfzphmmrlflmrdjhhrqqhzrcmzmyynhpfwcmkdnznh_djctcchphftmpdcjmjtj.html?a=&amp;b=41108\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/lmjqsfzphmmrlflmrdjhhrqqhzrcmzmyynhpfwcmkdnznh_djctcchphftmpdcjmjtj.html?a%3D%26b%3D41108&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1627683423628000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFJDMxg2JhfVDl3y_ytYbFiSbVZTQ\">President Biden<\/a>\u00a0on Thursday is directing all federal employees and onsite contractors to show that they are vaccinated or otherwise submit to regular coronavirus testing, a major step that will likely cause private-sector businesses to follow suit.<\/p>\n<p>Biden is instructing his administration to apply similar standards to all federal government contractors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you want to do business with the fed government, get your workers vaccinated,\u201d Biden said in remarks from the White House Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The shift:\u00a0<\/strong>The White House had previously tried to avoid tipping the scales by endorsing vaccine mandates for employers and other organizations. Thursday\u2019s announcement represents a sizable shift as the White House tries to convince more people to get vaccinated as COVID-19 cases rise due to the spread of the delta variant.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Another step: Biden calls on states to offer $100 vaccine incentives<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/sprlwzjfpbbtgzgbtcmpptllpjthbjbddkpfzshbrckjsb_djctcchphftmpdcjmjtj.html?a=&amp;b=41108\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/sprlwzjfpbbtgzgbtcmpptllpjthbjbddkpfzshbrckjsb_djctcchphftmpdcjmjtj.html?a%3D%26b%3D41108&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1627683423628000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEwdEEdthWPoFXzQgf7ifrg-rg9BA\">President Biden<\/a>\u00a0on Thursday called on state and local governments to use funds from his $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan to offer $100 payments to individuals in order to incentivize coronavirus vaccinations.<\/p>\n<p>The payments would be offered to newly vaccinated Americans to provide \u201can extra incentive to boost vaccination rates, protect communities, and save lives,\u201d the Treasury Department said in an announcement Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTreasury stands ready to give technical assistance to state and local governments so that they may use the funds effectively to support increased vaccination in their communities, and Treasury will partner with the Department of Health and Human Services throughout this effort,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>Biden formally announced the new incentive plan during an address on the coronavirus at the White House.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know that paying people to get vaccinated might sound unfair to folks that have gotten vaccinated already but here\u2019s the deal: if incentives help us beat this virus, I believe we should use them,\u201d he said. \u201cWe all benefit if we can get more people vaccinated.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden\u00a0on Thursday is directing all&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38216,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38215\/revisions\/38216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}