While the pushed deadline gives lawmakers some additional time to address the debt ceiling, it remains unclear how Democrats will proceed after Republican leaders, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, have repeatedly stated they will not help with legislation to raise the limit.
The Senate is voting on a continuing resolution to keep the government funded ahead of Friday's midnight deadline. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced earlier this evening that a deal had been reached for the chamber to pass a bill to keep the government funded through Feb. How we got here : Negotiators from both parties announced a plan this morning that would prevent a lapse in funding, but due to Senate rules governing procedure, all senators would need to agree in order to quickly pass the plan before Friday, and a handful of GOP senators had been standing by their threats to delay the process over the vaccine rules.
The Senate failed to approve the GOP-backed amendment that would prohibit the use of federal funds to implement or enforce vaccine mandates for Covid, including for large businesses, federal health care workers and the military.
The vote tally was 48 to 50 with moderate Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema joining with their fellow Democrats in opposition. The Senate will next vote on the stopgap funding bill to avoid a government shutdown. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer just announced a deal to avert a government shutdown ahead of Friday's deadline.
At p. The Senate is expected to start voting soon on the GOP vaccine amendment, which could take 40 minutes to an hour, a senate source said. They are then expected to vote on a continuing resolution to keep the government funded. Dick Durbin. Based on the bill introduced in the last Congress, it would grant protected status to eligible Dreamers for three years. Trump hasn't been willing to address DACA in a possible border wall deal until this week, previously saying that the courts should sort it out first.
His latest move is an attempt to get Democrats to the negotiating table, but it might not work out for him. Here are some of the holes in his strategy:. Besides where Democrats stand on this, the biggest outstanding question right now is if Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell actually puts this on the Senate floor on his own.
McConnell has said before that he wouldn't put anything on the Senate floor unless Pelosi, Schumer and the President all signed off. Live Coronavirus pandemic. Live Voting rights legislation. ET, January 22, Sort by Latest Oldest Dropdown arrow. While Democrats try to defuse the risk of a default, they also aim to push Biden's top domestic priority through the Senate.
He awaits word from the Senate parliamentarian about whether the plan complies with the budget process that will allow Democrats to pass it on their own. Schumer will also need to win over Democratic Sens. The House passed its version of the plan last month. The Senate will likely make changes, meaning the House would have to vote a second time. The flurry of activity in the Senate does not stop with the sprawling social-spending plan.
The chamber is also trying to pass the annual National Defense Authorization Act, which sets spending levels for defense programs. Passage of the stopgap bill ahead of a Friday at midnight deadline ended a standoff that had threatened to trigger a shutdown when a small number of Republican senators who object to Biden's vaccine requirements had held out the possibility of holding up a quick vote on the funding bill. To resolve the impasse, the two parties agreed to hold votes on the stopgap bill as well as a GOP amendment to prohibit the use of federal funding for Covid vaccine mandates, which ultimately failed.
Earlier on Thursday, the House passed a continuing resolution to fund the government through February Read More. The final vote was Adam Kinzinger of Illinois was the only Republican to join Democrats in voting for the resolution. Negotiators from both parties had announced a plan Thursday morning that would prevent a lapse in funding. But due to Senate rules governing procedure , all senators needed to agree to quickly pass the plan before Friday, an outcome that it was not clear could be locked in until late in the day, when party leaders announced a deal had been reached.
Some GOP objections over vaccine mandate. A group of Senate Republicans had threatened throughout the week to delay passage of the continuing budget resolution over the Biden administration's rule that requires businesses with or more employees to ensure their employees are fully vaccinated against Covid or undergo regular testing and wear face masks in the workplace. But when it came up for a vote, the Senate failed to approve a GOP amendment that would prohibit the use of federal funds to implement or enforce vaccine mandates for Covid, including for large businesses, federal health care workers and the military.
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