Senate GOP blocks Dems’ domestic terrorism bill, warn it threatened to target left’s political foes
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(Worthy News) – Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked the final passage of a measure to create domestic terrorism units in the FBI, Department of Homeland Security and Justice Department.
The bill, which the House recently passed in a near party-line 222-203 vote, was part of the Democrats’ renewed push against domestic terrorism and racist extremism in the wake of a mass shooting at a grocery store in a Black neighborhood in Buffalo, New York.
The bill gained added significance ahead of the Senate vote with Tuesday’s mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, which killed 19 students and two teachers. [ Source: Washington Times (Read More…) ]
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