Lord, give our president and other government officials wisdom and discernment. We pray that the fear of the Lord in their lives would cause them to shine as a light to the world.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Thursday again said that businesses with 100 or more workers should move forward and implement the federal governments’ rule requiring workers to get vaccinated or submit to regular testing.

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“Our message to businesses right now is to move forward with measures that will make their workplaces safer and protect their workforces from COVID-19,” she told reporters at the White House Thursday. “That was our message after the first stay issued by the Fifth Circuit. That remains our message and nothing has changed.”

It comes days after the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) said it would suspend enforcement of the mandate after a U.S. appeals court reaffirmed its decision to temporarily block the rule, which was published earlier this month.  . . .

Despite OSHA’s decision and the legal challenges, Psaki said the Biden administration is confident that it has the authority to implement the rule and confirmed the White House is still working under the guise that businesses will implement the mandate by Jan. 4. . . .

Earlier this week, the dispute over the OSHA rule, known as an emergency temporary standard, was transferred to the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which has a majority of its judges confirmed by Republican presidential administrations.

Despite that, Psaki asserted that polling shows that businesses are moving ahead with a vaccine mandate of some kind regardless of the ongoing legal challenges. She didn’t cite the polls or surveys to come up with that conclusion.

Like Psaki, several healthcare groups, including the powerful American Medical Association, this week called on businesses to implement the mandate, arguing that they “fully support” what OSHA is trying to implement. . . .

Recent data provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that about 47 million U.S. COVID-19 cases and around 762,000 deaths have been reported since the start of the pandemic in the United States. . . .

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(Excerpt from The Epoch Times. Photo by Getty Images.)