Some federal employee groups embrace Biden’s vaccine mandate, others are lukewarm — and one is outright hostile

The Senior Executives Association, which represents top-level civil servants, “fully supports President Biden’s action,” said its president, Bob Corsi. The Professional Managers Association, representing Internal Revenue Service supervisors, welcomed the vaccine mandate as “clear, consistent guidance to all employees. This is a welcome departure from the administration’s still unrealized plan to test unvaccinated employees,” said executive director Chad Hooper. The previous “testing plan exacerbated resource constraints, lacked effective coordination between central management offices and agency leaders, and exposed managers to potential liability.”