{"id":1592991,"date":"2022-08-07T09:17:02","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T13:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1592991"},"modified":"2022-08-07T09:17:27","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T13:17:27","slug":"senate-democrats-canceled-covid-policy-ahead-of-spending-bill-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-democrats-canceled-covid-policy-ahead-of-spending-bill-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Democrats Canceled COVID Policy Ahead of Spending Bill Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsenate-democrats-canceled-covid-policy-ahead-of-spending-bill-vote%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1592991&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<aside id=\"aside1\" class=\"left\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Senate Democrats are reportedly embracing a \u201cDon\u2019t Test, Don\u2019t Tell\u201d Wuhan Coronavirus protocol this weekend as they try to push a $764 billion spending bill through a 50-50 chamber.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dubbed the \u201cInflation Reduction Act,\u201d it needs all 50 Democrat votes so that Vice President Kamala Harris can cast a tie-breaking vote in its favor.<\/p>\n<p>Hence the abrupt change in policy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Democrats know that just one positive Covid test can wreck their plans to pass the hefty bill, which many Republicans argue will actually make inflation worse.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSenate Democrats, some of whom have decried their G.O.P. colleagues\u2019 lenient attitude toward masking, have adopted an unofficial \u2018Don\u2019t Test, Don\u2019t Tell,\u2019 protocol of late, particularly as they endeavor to pass the historic Inflation Reduction Act this weekend,\u201d a Senior Senate Aide told <a href=\"https:\/\/puck.news\/newsletter_content\/kellyannes-comeback\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Puck News<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re not going to delay it if a member has gotten COVID\u2026 Counterparts are saying they\u2019re not going to test anymore. It\u2019s not an official mandate but we all know we\u2019re not letting COVID get in the way. The deal is happening. Less testing, just wear masks and get it done,\u201d the Senate Aide added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Another <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/08\/05\/senate-dems-skipping-covid-testing-to-push-spending-bill-vote-report\/\">source\u00a0<\/a>reportedly told the outlet that \u201ceven if a senator did catch the virus, \u2018\u201cyou can bring your ventilator and still vote.\u201d\u2019<\/p>\n<p>If the bill passes in the test vote, a series of debates and votes on Republican amendments will take place, then a potential vote on final passage will come sometime Sunday. From there, the legislation would then go to the House.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">INCREDIBLE.<\/p>\n<p>After 2 solid years of attacking Republicans for not taking COVID seriously enough, they\u2019re not even testing themselves anymore because they\u2019re afraid of losing a vote on their climate tax and spend bill. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/z1MkMvabtp\">https:\/\/t.co\/z1MkMvabtp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattdizwhitlock\/status\/1555581197832568837?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 5, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Democrats are reportedly embracing a \u201cDon\u2019t Test, Don\u2019t Tell\u201d Wuhan Coronavirus protocol this weekend as they try to push a $764 billion spending bill through a 50-50<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1593248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1592991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1592991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1593248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1592991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1592991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1592991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}