Senate Passes Legislation to Prevent Dishonorable Discharges for Unvaccinated Servicemembers

Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) speaks in Washington in a file photograph. Greg Nash/Pool/AFP via Getty Images

The Senate has passed a draft of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would forbid the Department of Defense from dishonorably discharging members of the military whose only offense was refusing the vaccine.

The bill rider to the larger NDAA package was put forward by Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) to “prevent Joe Biden from dishonorably discharging servicemembers for choosing to not get the COVID vaccine.”