diff --git a/.github/trigger_files/beam_PostCommit_Python_MongoDBIO_IT.json b/.github/trigger_files/beam_PostCommit_Python_MongoDBIO_IT.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..0967ef424bce
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/trigger_files/beam_PostCommit_Python_MongoDBIO_IT.json
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+{}
diff --git a/sdks/python/apache_beam/io/mongodbio.py b/sdks/python/apache_beam/io/mongodbio.py
index 62cfc21df746..aede27674f8f 100644
--- a/sdks/python/apache_beam/io/mongodbio.py
+++ b/sdks/python/apache_beam/io/mongodbio.py
@@ -264,10 +264,6 @@ def __init__(
     self.projection = projection
     self.spec = extra_client_params
     self.bucket_auto = bucket_auto
-    self.client = MongoClient(
-        self.uri,
-        **self.spec,
-        driver=DriverInfo("Apache Beam", beam.__version__))
 
     if "driver" not in self.spec:
       self.spec["driver"] = DriverInfo(