Mon Feb 21, 2022 – 11:46 am ESTMon Feb 21, 2022 – 11:47 am EST
WASHINGTON (LifeSiteNews) — Four Republican senators doomed an amendment that would have banned funding for the Biden administration’s COVID vaccine mandates by failing to show up for a vote last week.
Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Richard Burr of North Carolina, Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, and Mitt Romney of Utah missed a vote Thursday on Utah Sen. Mike Lee’s amendment to a government spending bill that would have defunded the remaining federal vaccine mandates, including for healthcare workers.
With New Mexico Democrat Sen. Ben Ray Luján out after a stroke and two other Democrats away with “family emergencies,” Republicans temporarily held a narrow majority in the Senate, The Epoch Times reported. But the amendment failed 46-47 without the four missing Republicans’ support. A majority vote would have passed the amendment. The Senate on Thursday also rejected an amendment by Sen. Ted Cruz to prohibit federal funding for schools or daycare programs that require COVID-19 shots.
Democrat Sens. Joe Manchin and John Tester, who voted for a resolution in December introduced by Cruz to repeal Biden’s vaccine mandate for private businesses,
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