Negotiators in the U.S. Senate reached an agreement on how to proceed on a $1.66 trillion government spending bill, after a standoff on immigration, Democratic Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said on Thursday.
Progress on the bill -- which includes $44.9 billion in wartime aid for Ukraine and bans the use of Chinese-owned social media app TikTok on federal government devices -- had halted after conservative Republican Senator Mike Lee introduced an amendment meant to slow immigration.
"We have an agreement now,"Schumer said. "We will vote on all of the amendments in order and then vote on final passage. It's taken a while, but it's worth it." Lee's amendment would require the United States to maintain a policy known as Title 42, a policy implemented under Republican former President Donald Trump at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, which prevented hundreds of thousands of immigrants from seeking asylum. It grants border officials the ability to rapidly expel migrants to Mexico without a chance to seek asylum during public health emergencies.
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