GOP Senators: Dishonorable Discharges for Unvaccinated Service Members ‘Needs to Stop’

Senator Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) calls for members of the military who chose to not get the COVID-19 vaccine to not be dishonorably discharged during a news conference in the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C. on Nov. 4, 2021. Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images

A group of GOP senators criticized the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate while seeking a ban on dishonorable discharge directives for unvaccinated service members.

Sens. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), and First Liberty Institute’s general counsel, Mike Berry, held a press conference Thursday morning here they slammed President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate for the military.