Democrats’ Plan for Immigration Overhaul in Biden Agenda Blocked
- Broad plan for legal status won’t qualify for fast track
- Senate parliamentarian issues determination against Democrats
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The Senate parliamentarian has blocked Democrats from including a plan to provide legal status to as many as 8 million undocumented immigrants in the package of legislation encompassing President Joe Biden’s economic agenda.
Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough issued an Sunday that the broad and long-stalled immigration overhaul doesn’t qualify for inclusion in a massive tax and spending plan under the Senate rules that Democrats are using to bypass a Republican filibuster.