If the bill was a message, so was the response. "Fuck you, we'd rather not be hindered by such promises."
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>The original bill already passed.
factcheck: false. Original bill passed almost 12 hours later on the same day[0] [1]. The (above) amendment was voted on in the early morning, with the unamended increase passing in the afternoon.
>Congress has more important things to do.
factcheck: false. All 100 senators voted on the floor for a full vote on the amendment. None found they had something more important to do that would cause them not to cast a vote.
>The executive has stated its position.
factcheck: True. Either congress ignored the position, or they followed the privately endorsed position rather than the publicly endorsed one.
[0] https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1172/vote_117_2_00325.htm
[1] https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1172/vote_117_2_00296.htm
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RE: below [due to timeout]
>The original bill already passed.
>Congress has more important things to do. >The executive has stated its position.