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[SunnySide]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans blocked a Democratic attempt to begin Senate debate on a $10 billion COVID-19 compromise, pressing to entangle the bipartisan package with an election-year showdown over immigration restrictions that poses a politically uncomfortable fight for Democrats.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-block...041704072.html

I thought republicans wanted stand alone bills so bipartisan legislation doesnt get sidetracked with unrelated add ons?

[sdskinsfan2001]

Originally Posted by SunnySide

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans blocked a Democratic attempt to begin Senate debate on a $10 billion COVID-19 compromise, pressing to entangle the bipartisan package with an election-year showdown over immigration restrictions that poses a politically uncomfortable fight for Democrats.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-block...041704072.html

I thought republicans wanted stand alone bills so bipartisan legislation doesnt get sidetracked with unrelated add ons?

I do. Doesn't mean the Republican assholes in DC will.

If it's a stand alone bill, they want a huge bill. If it's a huge bill, they want a stand alone bill.

Basically the goal is to never pass anything unless they can steal credit credit for it.

[nonniey]

Originally Posted by SunnySide

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans blocked a Democratic attempt to begin Senate debate on a $10 billion COVID-19 compromise, pressing to entangle the bipartisan package with an election-year showdown over immigration restrictions that poses a politically uncomfortable fight for Democrats.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-block...041704072.html

I thought republicans wanted stand alone bills so bipartisan legislation doesnt get sidetracked with unrelated add ons?

Come on now unrelated??? In this case it actually is related. The Executive order that they (GOP) want preserved is specifically related to health restrictions on entry to the US tied to COVID.

[SunnySide]

Originally Posted by nonniey

Come on now unrelated??? In this case it actually is related. The Executive order that they (GOP) want preserved is specifically related to health restrictions on entry to the US tied to COVID.

Title 42 comes from a 1944 public health law to prevent the spread of communicable disease. It was implemented in March 2020 by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC order empowered border enforcement agencies to remove migrants crossing into the United States, including those hoping to apply for asylum, which is their right under U.S. law and international treaty.

https://www.voanews.com/a/explainer-...-/6518286.html

A bill by Senate Republicans to terminate the national emergency declaration for the COVID-19 pandemic narrowly passed March 3 on a party-line vote.

The legislation passed 48-47, with several absences on the Democratic side of the aisle, in a rebuke of the administration's pandemic policies while it is seeking billions from Congress, Politico reports.

The bill has a narrow chance of passing the Democrat-controlled House, and the White House has promised to veto it if it reached President Joe Biden's desk. The president moved to extend the declaration of COVID-19 as a national emergency in a Feb. 18 letter to Congress.

https://www.beckershospitalreview.co...rs-senate.html

The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which initiated the move two years ago, said earlier this month that it would lift the ban next month. The restrictions, known as Title 42, have been harder to justify as pandemic restrictions have eased.

Trump administration officials cast the curb as a way to keep COVID-19 from spreading further in the U.S. Democrats considered that an excuse for Trump, whose anti-immigrant rhetoric was a hallmark of his presidency, to keep migrants from entering the country.

Rep. Judy Chu, D-Calif., said she supported terminating Trump’s curb and questioned GOP motives for seeking to reinstate it.

“I find it very ironic for those who haven’t wanted to have a vaccination mandate, for those who did not want to have masks in the classroom, for them to suddenly be very interested in protecting the public,” she said.

https://apnews.com/article/biden-cov...935909d8c55b5e

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