Biden's decision has caused Democrats to quietly complain.
, despite having expressed strong objections against it earlier this year, ensuring the bill is on an easy path to becoming law. to a Republican measure, rallying most Democrats in Congress to vote against it, only to soften its stance and let the legislation eventually become law. a Republican-led bill to upend a new criminal code for the District of Columbia he and others in the president’s party opposed, allowing the GOP’s tough-on-crime push into the local government to become law.
A White House official said that when the House Republicans were first preparing to vote on the bill at the start of the year, it would have lifted the national emergency declaration for the coronavirus pandemic in February. Ahead of voting, Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., one of the bill’s main sponsors, said he hoped “that the rumors are true — that the president will finally sign this legislation.”
At the time, the administration warned the proposal would cause chaos. More than 197 Democrats in the House voted against it.
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