Pelosi: Republicans Trying to Attach Keeping Title 42 to the Covid Relief Package Are ‘Holding It Hostage’

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PELOSI: "Well, listen, we're observing in these days a million people who have died of COVID. The sadness of this lingers on, causing all kinds of trauma for families, mental health issues, sadness for families. You would think that the Republicans would take that into consideration. They couldn't pass the Ukraine bill, with the senators going over to Ukraine empty-handed with a promise. We passed the bill. We wanted to put COVID on there. They said no. We said, 'Okay, Ukraine, urgent, right this minute. We will do that.' But we have to do the COVID package. There's no use holding it up to blackmail, as the Republicans are trying to do. We're working on it. We will find a way. It has to be done, because people continuing to hear every moment — all the time now, hopefully not as deadly as the previous COVID-19, but, nonetheless, we must pass the package. And, again, they should not connect it."