President Joe Biden's immediate priorities of securing $33 billion in aid to Ukraine and $10 billion in funding for Covid relief aren't passing Congress in a hurry.
Both are jammed up over an unrelated dispute about immigration, with Senate Republicans filibustering the bipartisan Covid relief bill unless the Democratic-controlled chamber votes on an amendment to reimpose the Trump-era Title 42 rule. The rule allow U.S. officials to turn away asylum-seekers at the border due to the pandemic.
“We have to get something done,” she said. “If we want vaccines available to Americans in the fall, if we want to have the next therapeutics, if we want to have tests available for the next surge, we’ve got to have this money.” The second option is to pass the Ukraine aid separately. Numerous Republicans prefer this approach, but Democrats fear it would leave Covid relief stranded without a clear path as federal funding for vaccines, booster shots and therapeutics dries up.
The third option is to give Republicans a vote on Title 42 and immigration amendments. Some Democrats fear that's inevitable.
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