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The News Roundup — Domestic

Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) speaks to reporters following a Senate Democratic luncheon at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC.
Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) speaks to reporters following a Senate Democratic luncheon at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer triggered the budget reconciliation process in the chamber of Congress, setting Democrats up to pass the Biden administration’s American Jobs and Family Plan through the Senate via a simple majority vote in July. 

Nine years from the passage of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Act, Vice President Kamala Harris will host a roundtable with agroup of female immigrants ahead of the Biden administration’s push for bipartisan immigration reform.

A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit filed by employees of a Houston hospital system over its requirement that all of its staff be vaccinated against COVID-19.

We cover the most important stories from around the nation on the domestic portion of the News Roundup.

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