The Senate on Thursday blocked an amendment to a stop-gap funding bill that would defund President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate.
The Senate voted 48-50, just a few votes short of the 51-vote majority necessary to pass the Marshall-Lee amendment to H.R. 6119, the continuing resolution (CR). The Marshall-Lee proposal would have defunded Biden’s vaccine mandate. The CR would fund the government through February 18.
Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT), who voted for the Marshall-Lee amendment, said in a statement after the vote:
President Biden’s overreaching vaccine mandate will hurt Montana…
