The Senate passed legislation on May 17 that could knock out the Biden administration’s new, looser rule for deciding whether migrants are likely to become public charges within America’s welfare state.
Fifty lawmakers voted yea, while 47 voted nay. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) was among those who backed it.
The measure is a joint resolution of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act. Those resolutions allow Congress to take down agency rules soon after they’re proposed. The law also prevents agencies from reissuing a rule “substantially the same” as the one that met with congressional disapproval.
The White House’s Office of Management and Budget on May 17 announced that President Joe Biden would veto the legislation, saying the Department of Homeland Security’s rule provides “a clear, comprehensive, and fair standard for assessing whether a noncitizen is likely to become a public charge.”…