Moderate Democrats join GOP senators to back bill to delay end of Title 42 border expulsions
CBSN
A group of Democratic senators is planning to join Republican lawmakers in introducing a measure on Thursday that would temporarily block the Biden administration's plan to end pandemic-related restrictions that allow border authorities to quickly expel migrants, according to people familiar with the plan.
The proposal, expected to be co-sponsored by six Republican senators and five moderate Democratic senators, would prevent the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from following through with an order published last week that will stop authorizing the border rule, known as Title 42, in late May.
Democratic Sens. Kyrsten Sinema and Mark Kelly of Arizona; Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire; Jon Tester of Montana; and Joe Manchin of West Virginia are co-sponsoring the bill, alongside Republican Sens. James Lankford of Oklahoma; John Thune of South Dakota; John Cornyn of Texas; Thom Tillis of North Carolina; Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia and Rob Portman of Ohio.
