U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) knows it won't pass, but he still wants to take a vote on it.
The self-described democratic socialist thinks the U.S. Senate should vote on President Joe Biden's so-called Build Back Better social spending plan — even though the majority of the U.S. Senate is against it. All 50 Republicans oppose it, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia) said he doesn't support it, and U.S. Senator Kyrsten Sinema (D-Arizona) hasn't said whether or not she supports the current bill.
Emerson College doesn't want its students to leave their rooms on campus for a two-week stretch.
The school issued a "stay in room directive" to students living in on-campus residential halls. It comes in response to the Omicron variant of coronavirus.
