Vice President Joe Biden appeared to once more pull ahead of his boss on LGBT equality, this time telling the Huffington Post that he couldn’t see any reason why the president should continue to stall on extending workplace protections to gay and transgender employees of federal contractors.

“I don’t see any downside,” said Biden on Thursday, when asked about the president’s reluctance to expand an existing executive order that already prohibits federal contractors from discriminating on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin – but not sexual orientation or gender identity.

However, Biden did say that the better approach would be for Congress to pass the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which would cover the country’s entire workforce, not just the quarter employed by federal contractors.

“The way to do this is to pass ENDA,” said the vice president. “That ends [anti-LGBT discrimination] everywhere.”

MSNBC