Rahm Emanuel: Health Officials Should Use the Word ‘Requirement’ Instead of the Word ‘Mandate’

‘You can call it a requirement’

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EMANUEL: "Yeah, I would not use the word 'mandate'. If you’re going to look at the 40 percent of Americans that don’t have a vaccine — "

STEPHANOPOULOS: "It still is a mandate, though."

EMANUEL: "Right. No, you should call it a requirement. A requirement to participate in the rest of the economy that’s opening up. And if you — look, the first 60 percent you can do en masse. The last 40 percent you’ve got to do strategically based on different sectors of the population. I would not use the word 'mandate'. We're requiring this for X access to the economy. You have to think about people in that way.”

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