I guess the downvoters didn’t bother to (or can’t) read the article:
In the bill’s original iteration, it was popular among both Republicans and Democrats, who saw it as an appealing way to police Palestinian rights organizations after protests last year. An earlier version, in April, passed the House easily, with only 11 votes against the bill.
i doubt they would have pushed this through if Harris was about to be president.
The bill was unable to meet the two-thirds majority vote it needed to make it through the House last week. But, today, with only a simple majority vote required, the legislation passed the House in a 219–184 vote. This time, it garnered far less Democratic support than it had only days ago.
In the bill’s original iteration, it was popular among both Republicans and Democrats, who saw it as an appealing way to police Palestinian rights organizations after protests last year. An earlier version, in April, passed the House easily, with only 11 votes against the bill. It didn’t make it through the Senate and was reintroduced in the House this fall.
While the focus might have originally been to silence Pro-palestinian voices and non-profits, this affects all NGOs. That means, without any evidence whatsoever, the administration can declare any NGO a ‘supporter of terrorism’ and revote their tax-exempt states, completely crippling the NGO’s funding if not the entire NGO. This is disastrous. Not only for pro-palestinian NGOs rightfully advocating against genocide, but every NGO that fights for human rights.
Schumer will send this bill to Never Neverland. They will have to do it again next Congress.
I sure hope you’re right considering some Dems in the house voted for it.
That’s why they voted for it. They knew it wouldn’t go anywhere. They probably got something for it too.
For anyone interested in a less bias source.
So now’s the time for Democrats to use the filibuster they were so devoted to keeping.
The broader question I see here is “Why are Democrats supporting Trumps agenda?”
We’re in a position where we’re a few weeks out from the total collapse of the US political system as we know it and 15 Democrats still think its appropriate to cross the aisle.
We might be able to see this as a signal of things to come. Perhaps, expect Trump to get his agenda passed with the support of the Democrats.
I set up a survey for lemmy users here:
Given the opportunity, do you think Biden would veto bill HR 9495?
I’m interested if the community thinks this Biden would veto this bill or not.
Your poll ran for a single hour and has a single vote in it.
What was this a Republican polling site or something?
