Senate punts Zika fight to the fall, Senate Democrats on Thursday blocked a accord to accommodate $1.1 billion to action the Zika virus for a additional time, finer blame the allotment action into September.
Senators voted 52-44 on a procedural hurdle. Sixty votes were bare to move advanced with the Zika money, which is absorbed to a beyond aggressive and veterans spending bill.
The vote comes as assembly are at a standstill over how to get the Zika angle to Admiral Obama's board afore the summer recess. Senators are accepted to leave Washington and alpha a seven-week alcove afterwards Thursday.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) filed cloture on the angle afterwards the vote, which will acquiesce him to accompany aback up the Zika angle afterwards this year.
Democrats accept aghast at acknowledging the GOP accord because of how it's paid for and a accouterment that blocks allotment for Planned Parenthood.
Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Republicans are currently in a "logic-free zone."
"The Republicans are allotment vacation over attention abundant women and their babies from these abhorrent bearing defects that can be prevented," he added from the Senate floor.
Democrats accursed Republicans beforehand Thursday for abrogation boondocks afterwards arrest a host of issues, including Zika spending, gun ascendancy and new money for preventing opioid overdoses.
Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) beatific a letter to McConnell on Thursday allurement him to adjournment the summer breach until afterwards they get an acceding on Zika funding.
"Attached to this bill are several highly-partisan accoutrement that accomplish the absolute admeasurement unpassable in its accepted anatomy - behindhand of how abounding times the Senate is affected to vote on it," he wrote in the letter. "This political gamesmanship has to end."
Instead, the GOP is blame the Senate to pass, for a additional time, a accord from Sens. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Roy Blunt (R-Mo.). It would aswell accommodate $1.1 billion to action the virus.
McConnell, however, has alleged that a non-starter, acquainted it will not canyon the House. Republicans accept aghast at the aboriginal Senate Zika acceding because it's not paid for.
He's apprenticed Democrats for weeks to cavern in the allotment fight, arguing the appointment accord - which has already anesthetized the House - is currently the alone way to get a bill to Obama's desk.
McConnell added Thursday that Democrats are putting "partisan backroom afore acute issues like civic aegis and Zika."
"This is a austere crisis that demands austere solutions. It's time for our accompany to alpha annoying beneath about adorable alfresco political groups and alpha annoying added about in fact allowance the Americans who are counting on us," he said.
But the White House has apprenticed that the admiral would veto the accepted appointment report, which would forward assembly aback to the negotiating table.
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) accursed Democrats, adage in a account that "playing backroom with this crisis is shameful."
Senators voted 52-44 on a procedural hurdle. Sixty votes were bare to move advanced with the Zika money, which is absorbed to a beyond aggressive and veterans spending bill.
The vote comes as assembly are at a standstill over how to get the Zika angle to Admiral Obama's board afore the summer recess. Senators are accepted to leave Washington and alpha a seven-week alcove afterwards Thursday.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) filed cloture on the angle afterwards the vote, which will acquiesce him to accompany aback up the Zika angle afterwards this year.
Democrats accept aghast at acknowledging the GOP accord because of how it's paid for and a accouterment that blocks allotment for Planned Parenthood.
Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Republicans are currently in a "logic-free zone."
"The Republicans are allotment vacation over attention abundant women and their babies from these abhorrent bearing defects that can be prevented," he added from the Senate floor.
Democrats accursed Republicans beforehand Thursday for abrogation boondocks afterwards arrest a host of issues, including Zika spending, gun ascendancy and new money for preventing opioid overdoses.
Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) beatific a letter to McConnell on Thursday allurement him to adjournment the summer breach until afterwards they get an acceding on Zika funding.
"Attached to this bill are several highly-partisan accoutrement that accomplish the absolute admeasurement unpassable in its accepted anatomy - behindhand of how abounding times the Senate is affected to vote on it," he wrote in the letter. "This political gamesmanship has to end."
Instead, the GOP is blame the Senate to pass, for a additional time, a accord from Sens. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Roy Blunt (R-Mo.). It would aswell accommodate $1.1 billion to action the virus.
McConnell, however, has alleged that a non-starter, acquainted it will not canyon the House. Republicans accept aghast at the aboriginal Senate Zika acceding because it's not paid for.
He's apprenticed Democrats for weeks to cavern in the allotment fight, arguing the appointment accord - which has already anesthetized the House - is currently the alone way to get a bill to Obama's desk.
McConnell added Thursday that Democrats are putting "partisan backroom afore acute issues like civic aegis and Zika."
"This is a austere crisis that demands austere solutions. It's time for our accompany to alpha annoying beneath about adorable alfresco political groups and alpha annoying added about in fact allowance the Americans who are counting on us," he said.
But the White House has apprenticed that the admiral would veto the accepted appointment report, which would forward assembly aback to the negotiating table.
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) accursed Democrats, adage in a account that "playing backroom with this crisis is shameful."
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