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Asa Hutchinson argues that the state would 'lose valuable workers' if the vaccine mandate is in place.

Asa Hutchinson explained why his state isn’t implementing a vaccine mandate for state workers on FOX Business' "Varney and Co." .

Right now, among our state employees without any mandate, we're at 67% vaccination rate and that is as high as California, where they have a vaccine mandate among their state employees that they're not doing a good job of implementing. .

We'd lose [state workers] to private sector, which does not have mandates in most of their environment, they have their own decision-making capability based upon the needs of their industry.

And so, yes, we would lose valuable workers if we put that mandate in, but it would increase resistance across the board throughout the state.

Asa Hutchinson explains why his state isn’t implementing a vaccine mandate for state workers. 

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