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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGOP Sen. Ron Johnson Blocks Bill To Make Juneteenth A Federal Holiday
A bipartisan effort to make Juneteenth a federal holiday failed in the Senate on Wednesday after Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) blocked it from advancing.
Johnson, a conservative who takes hardline stances of federal spending, said that while he supported honoring the day that has come to mark slaverys end in the U.S., said doing so with a new holiday would give federal workers a paid day off that the rest of America has to pay for.
He also estimated that creating another federal holiday would cost the private sector up to $600 million a year.
Senate Democrats, joined by Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, proposed the federal holiday in June, one of the responses to nationwide protests spurred by the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. House Democrats also won the support of several Republicans for a similar bill offered by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas).
https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/juneteenth-federal-holiday-johnson-225958468.html
LakeArenal
(28,819 posts)Never hated a group of people like this.
still_one
(92,198 posts)holiday
stillcool
(32,626 posts)stopbush
(24,396 posts)Christmas is a religious holiday, the only religious holiday that is a Fed holiday...and of course, the religion celebrated is Xianity. Why?
Columbus Day? A day that celebrates the European colonization of the Americas and the eventual killing of millions of indigenous people? Uh huh.
Get rid of either or both to make room for Juneteenth.