A snowstorm on the east coast tightens the start of Senate week.
A final vote to confirm Alejandro Mayorkas
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Currently, the east coast is sinking by a snowstorm, and snow may persist until Tuesday.
While Washington, DC, received only a few inches of snow on Sunday, according to the Washington Post, some parts of the Northeast are expected to receive more than a foot of snow. The National Weather Service predicts New York City could reach 22 inches on Tuesday morning.
The Senate held an initial vote for Mayorkas on Thursday, where it defeated a Republican filibuster. But the Senate reached an agreement to hold its final confirmation vote Monday, allowing senators to return to their home states over the weekend.
The delay comes amid what is becoming a hectic week in Washington as Democrats prepare to pave the way for coronavirus legislation.
The House will vote this week on a budget resolution, the first step in skipping the 60-vote Senate filibuster through reconciliation.
Senate Democrats are also expected to pass the budget resolution this week, although it was already setting itself up as an aggressive schedule even before the snow delay.
The approval of a budget in the Senate includes holding a vote in the branch, a marathon session where any senator who wants to force the vote on an amendment can do so.
Leader of the Senate majority Charles Schumer
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But he has warned Democrats will follow that path if they fail to buy 10 Senate Republicans in a deal that would closely resemble Biden’s $ 1.9 trillion proposal.
“Our preference is to do this important bipartisan work: to include input, ideas, and reviews from our Republican colleagues or bipartisan efforts to do the same. But if our Republican colleagues decide to oppose this urgent and necessary legislation, we will have to move forward without them, ”Schumer said from the Senate floor late last week.