Sen. Marshall to force vote on resolution against Biden ‘public charge’ rule, White House threatens veto
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Sen. Roger Marshall is forcing a vote on a resolution of disapproval of the Biden administration's public charge rule on immigrants and receiving welfare benefits.
The resolution would nullify the Department of Homeland Security’s rule, introduced last year, that would codify guidance put in place during the Clinton administration and would depart significantly from a now-reversed Trump-era rule issued in 2019 that significantly expanded the forms of welfare that would consider an immigrant as a "public charge." Adam Shaw is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital, primarily covering immigration and border security.
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The "public charge" has been a long-standing concept in immigration law and refers to someone deemed likely to rely on government assistance — it is a condition for denying someone immigration status.