Nearly 80 years old and prone to verbal slips, President Joe Biden isn’t exactly known for being articulate with his words. But it’s one thing to forget things or jumble your words during a campaign stop or public event — hardly the end of the world. On matters of national policy, however, there’s no excuse. Yet, Biden’s new national vaccine mandate is rife with inconsistencies and incoherent arguments that make his verbal mistakes pale in comparison.

The White House announced the mandate on Thursday. The Labor Department will force businesses with more than 100 employees to mandate that all employees get vaccinated or make their unvaccinated workers take weekly COVID-19 tests. (Weekly testing of this sort is expensive and cumbersome.) The order applies to roughly 80 million workers, and businesses face fines of up to $14,000 per violation. Essentially, the White House is trying to go beyond its constitutional authority and strong-arm hesitant people into getting the vaccine if they want to keep their jobs.