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A Texas judge blocked the vaccine mandate for federal workers, months after the White House said 95 percent of them had already gotten the shot.

Friday, January 21, 2022 3:13 PM EST

President Biden announced in September that more than 3.5 million federal workers were required to get vaccinated by Nov. 22. He said that there would be no option to get regularly tested, aside from some religious or medical exemptions. But the judge in Texas, Jeffrey Brown, ruled on Friday that opponents of the mandate were likely to succeed at trial and blocked the government from enforcing the requirement.

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