President Trump signed an executive order Monday night, reinstating all members of the military who were fired for refusing the COVID vaccine and entitling them to “receive full back pay, benefits, bonus payments, or compensation.”
Approximately 8,000 troops were discharged because of Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Some troops sued over the mandate and faced backlash.
The order titled “Reinstating Service Members Discharged Under the Military’s COVID-19 Vaccination Mandate” also allows those who resigned because of Biden’s vaccine mandate to return to the military “with no impact on their service status, rank, or pay.”
This is another campaign promise that the President kept.
As The Gateway Pundit reported on Monday, President Trump also said he would be signing this order along with others focused on the U.S. military while speaking to GOP lawmakers in Miami, Florida.
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President Trump returned to the White House last night after traveling to North Carolina, California, Nevada, and Florida and followed through on his promises.
WELCOME BACK, MR. PRESIDENT!: After a long weekend in North Carolina, California, Nevada, and Florida, President Trump returns back to the White House for another busy week ahead.@FrontlinesTPUSA @TPUSA pic.twitter.com/1D7VpZQC4O
— MONICA PAIGE✰TPUSA (@MonicaPaigeTV) January 28, 2025
As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier, President Trump also signed an executive order initiating the development of a missile defense system modeled after Israel’s renowned Iron Dome. This initiative aims to create a “state-of-the-art Iron Dome missile defense shield” to protect the United States from various aerial threats.
Read the full order to reinstate service members below:
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:
Section 1. Purpose and Policy. On August 24, 2021, the Secretary of Defense mandated that all service members receive the COVID-19 vaccine. The Secretary of Defense later rescinded the mandate on January 10, 2023. The vaccine mandate was an unfair, overbroad, and completely unnecessary burden on our service members. Further, the military unjustly discharged those who refused the vaccine, regardless of the years of service given to our Nation, after failing to grant many of them an exemption that they should have received. Federal Government redress of any wrongful dismissals is overdue.
Sec. 2. Redress. Consistent with the policies announced in section 1 of this order, the Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of Homeland Security, as appropriate, shall take all necessary action permitted by law to:
(a) make reinstatement available to all members of the military (active and reserve) who were discharged solely for refusal to receive the COVID-19 vaccine and who request to be reinstated;
(b) enable those service members reinstated under this section to revert to their former rank and receive full back pay, benefits, bonus payments, or compensation; and
(c) allow any service members who provide a written and sworn attestation that they voluntarily left the service or allowed their service to lapse according to appropriate procedures, rather than be vaccinated under the vaccine mandate, to return to service with no impact on their service status, rank, or pay.
Sec. 3. Additional Agency Responsibilities. (a) Nothing in this order precludes disciplinary or administrative action for conduct that is proscribed by chapter 47 of title 10, United States Code (Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 U.S.C. 801-946a).
(b) Within 60 days of the date of this order, the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall report to the President through the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs on their progress in implementing this order.
Sec. 4. Severability. If any provision of this order, or the application of any provision to any person or circumstance, is held to be invalid, the remainder of this order and the application of its provisions to any other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby.
Sec. 5. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department, agency, or the head thereof; or
(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.
(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
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