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Top congressional Democrats are signaling they want to come to a consensus position on Title 42 amid harsh criticism from their own members of President Biden’s plan to roll it back and unrelenting political attacks from Republicans.
“We’re going to be working through this to see if we can come to a position that we can agree to because there’s divisions there now,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said this week.
“I’m not going to say what agreement like that would look like because I don’t want to prejudge… our negotiations or discussions,” House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., said when asked if similar conversations are happening with his members. “But I’m hopeful we’ll get an agreement on that.”
“That’s being worked on,” he added. But, Hoyer said, GOP “demagoguery” on the Title 42 issue is not helping matters.
Senate Majority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer
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Title 42 was put in place by former President Donald Trump’s administration early in the pandemic to make it easier to quickly deport many migrants. Biden kept in place for over a year but recently set a date of May 23 for it to be rescinded, citing improving pandemic conditions.
But Republicans and many Democrats — particularly moderates and those up for re-election — panned the decision as premature due to an expected migrant surge that would result from Title 42’s removal.
The comments from Hoyer and Schumer don’t represent a full break with the president. Schumer in particular called for Title 42 to end going back to last year. But the statements may indicate that Democratic leaders think being in lockstep with the White House on Title 42 is untenable given dissension in their ranks, and they need a compromise stance all their members can back.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer
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