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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said at a Thursday morning press conference that a failure to keep the government open would be the result of the Senate Republicans taking an anti-vaccination stance.
“We’re not going for their anti-vaxxing, so if you think that’s how we’re going to keep government open, forget that,” Pelosi said.
Some Senate Republicans are threatening to vote down a stopgap government funding bill unless it strips enforcement provisions from the White House’s vaccine mandate for larger employers.
Nancy Pelosi talks to reporters during her weekly news conference in the U.S. Capitol on Thursday. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
“I think this is the fight — this is where