{"id":24128,"date":"2021-02-09T12:48:37","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T17:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=24128"},"modified":"2021-02-11T05:27:36","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T10:27:36","slug":"senators-vote-against-american-workers-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2021\/02\/09\/senators-vote-against-american-workers-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators Vote to Block Stimulus Checks for Illegals but Against Restricting Immigration Increases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After a marathon 15-hour vote-a-rama<\/a> , the U.S. Senate passed a budget resolution by a vote of 51-50, with Vice President Kamala Harris casting the tie-breaking vote. Because the Senate considered the bill under the budget reconciliation process<\/a>, Democrats needed only 51 votes to pass the legislation, opting to go it alone rather than work with Republicans on crafting a bipartisan package. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The budget reconciliation process\nallows members of the minority party \u2013 in this case, the Republicans \u2013 to\nintroduce as many amendments as they want to add to the bill. Often, these\namendments require the majority party to take votes on controversial\nlegislation. Many of the evening\u2019s 45 amendments ended in 50-50 party-line\nvotes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Republicans did manage to divide\nsome Democrats, however. One amendment proposed by Senators Todd Young (R-Ind.)\nand Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) would block stimulus checks from going to illegal\naliens. Initially, the amendment passed with eight Democrats voting with their\nRepublican colleagues in favor of this common-sense proposal: <\/p>\n\n\n\n