FOX host Tucker Carlson blasted prominent Democrats and Biden White House officials for going back on earlier claims that they would never force a vaccine mandate on Americans.
'Until recently mandatory vaccines were unthinkable, even among Democrats,' said Carlson, before he played clips of from Biden, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Dr. Anthony Fauci all saying the current mandate was impossible.
Carlson was speaking after the president on Thursday signed sweeping orders, one of which required Covid-19 vaccinations for all federal workers, dropping the previous option of regular testing. Another order forced businesses with over 100 workers to get vaccinated or tested for coronavirus at least once a week.
The federal workforce mandate covers 2.1 million workers and the private business order covers over 80 million employees and it will require employers with 100 or more employees to give employees paid time off to get vaccinated.
On Monday Carlson railed against Biden's executive order requiring all federal workers to be vaccinated
On Monday, Carlson started off with a clip of Biden at a December 2020 press conference where he told reporters he did not believe the vaccine should be mandatory.
'I don't think it should be mandatory, I wouldn't demand that it be mandatory but I would do everything in my power, just like I don't think mask should be made mandatory nationwide,' he said at the time.
Calson then aired a clip of Jen Psaki from this July saying the federal government does not have the power to mandate vaccines.
'Can we mandate vaccines across the country? No, that's not a role that the federal government even has the power to make.'
At a December 2020 press conference Biden (pictured) told reporters he did not believe the vaccine should be mandatory
A clip of Nancy Pelosi (pictured) in April captures her telling the press that vaccination status are private
In an August 2020 CSPAN interview Dr. Fauci (pictured) said the U.S mandating the vaccine would be 'inappropriate'
A clip of Nancy Pelosi in
