A $10 billion COVID-19 funding bill worked out by Senate leadership has hit a snag in the chamber because of Republican objections over one of its immigration provisions. Senate Republican and Democrat negotiators struck a deal on April 4 for the additional funding for the United States’ COVID-19 response, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced. After apparently garnering enough support to pass, the compromise bill was blocked by Senate Republicans in a 47–52 vote on April 5; they’re demanding votes on amendments to the legislation before they will lend their support. One of the most prominent of these proposed amendments would reverse President Joe Biden’s Title 42 immigration decision. Because of the CCP virus pandemic, President Donald Trump established restrictions that allowed border patrol agents to turn illegal immigrants away at the border and force them to return to Mexico. In an April 1 statement, the Centers for Disease Control and …
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