WASHINGTON, D.C. (WRN) — A rollback on the U.S. military’s flu vaccine requirement gets a thumbs up from U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson.
The Pentagon’s flu shot requirement had been in place since the early 1950s. War Secretary Pete Hegseth this week signed a new policy discarding the vaccine requirement effective immediately.
Hegseth said warfighters can decide for themselves whether it’s in their best interest, part of a broader rollback of what he called overly aggressive medical mandates imposed by the Biden administration, including a COVID vaccine requirement.
In a post to X, Wisconsin’s Republican U.S. Senator thanked Hegseth for what he calls “a step in the right direction to right the Biden administration’s unconscionable wrongs.”