Biden touts vaccine mandates for large businesses: 'These requirements work'
ABC News
President Joe Biden visited Illinois on Thursday to promote vaccine requirements for large businesses.
President Joe Biden renewed his call for private employers to require their workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19, saying "we are going to beat this pandemic" if more Americans get their shots.
"Without them, we face endless months of chaos in our hospitals, damage to our economy and anxiety in our schools and empty restaurants and much less commerce," Biden said during a speech in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, where he toured a construction site overseen by Clayco, which is one of the Midwest's largest construction companies and announced new vaccination requirements for its employees Thursday.
"I know these decisions aren't easy, but you're setting an example and a powerful example," he said of Clayco's new requirement.
Biden said that the U.S. is in a position to "leap forward" economically and that businesses "have more power than ever before to change the arc of this pandemic."
