Covid Funding Stalled in Senate by Fight Over Border Policy (1)

The $10 billion in emergency pandemic response money sought by the White House is stalled in the Senate ahead of a two-week recess because of objections by Republicans and a few Democrats to the Biden administration’s impending opening of the U.S.-Mexico border to asylum-seekers.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and other Democratic leaders have rejected a Republican demand to vote on an amendment requiring the Biden administration to continue a Covid-related requirement known as Title 42 to expel adult migrants entering the U.S. via the Mexico border, which the administration intends to lift next month.

The amendment likely would pass ...