Mike Pence: Vaccine Mandates Are Driving People Out of the Workforce

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PENCE: “And Ainsley, on the issue of labor shortages and supply chains, look, you’ve got two things that work, I believe, as I travel all across the country. Number one is we have been paying people not to work for a long time, and while we suspended the $300 plus up in unemployment, there’s other additional new subsidies that encourage people not to work. That’s probably why 4 million people quit their jobs in the month of August. We have 10 million job openings. But I have to tell you, these vaccine mandates are driving people out of the workforce. And as you see with this impending mandate in New York, it actually is also a threat to public safety. No one should fear losing their job over the decision of whether or not they take a Covid vaccine. That’s — we worked in Operation Warp Speed in record time to give the American people the testing, the tools, the medicines and the vaccines to make the best decisions for themselves, their families, their businesses. These mandates are wrong and they are driving labor shortages that are driving supply chain issues and they need to stop and they need to stop now."