Vaccine brawl riles House
Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios
Uncertainty about why only 75% of the House is confirmed as vaccinated against the coronavirus is fueling a debate about when the chamber can return to its normal rules of operation.
Between the lines: The other 25% of members have either refused to get the vaccine, have not reported getting it at home or are avoiding it because of medical conditions. Until the Office of Attending Physician is clear about this, it can t make recommendations regarding the modification or relaxation of existing social distancing guidelines.
Congress has its own supply of the coronavirus vaccine. While it s not certain which party is most to blame for any vaccine hesitancy, the phenomenon is higher among white Republicans than any other demographic group, as Axios has reported.
Iowa GOP Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks speaks out after traveling to Texas to assess the growing crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and 12 other House Republicans are at the southern border and will make comments from El Paso, Texas, later Monday as the GOP continues to hammer President Biden over immigration.
McCarthy, R-Calif., and other Republicans have blamed Biden himself for the massive surge in border crossings since he took office. They are likely to highlight that point on Monday as they continue to paint a picture of a border in crisis, a word the Biden administration has refused to use to describe the large influx of migrants and limited federal resources to deal with it.
When Scalise is reluctant to criticize a policy that might credibly look socialistic, the politics of the relief package are clearly tilted against the GOP
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for all of fiscal 2020.
This has left detention facilities, which Biden and every other Democrat condemned as “kids in cages” during the Trump Administration, horribly overcrowded. Some inmates reportedly haven’t seen the sun for days [
Lawyers describe overcrowded conditions for children in Border Patrol custody, by Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, March 12, 2021]. But of course the media cover this development without the angry denunciations they heaped on Trump.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has blamed Biden for the disaster. He was immediately met with usual dubious “fact checks” of his point that COVID-positive illegals could spread the virus [
border authorities themselves blame Biden and