Republicans Want to Ban People Vaccinated for COVID From Donating Blood

Table Of Content

• For the first time ever, ‘Blood In Blood Out’ will be available for streaming
• Prohibit donations of certain blood and blood products
• New Details of Timeline in Charlotte Mass Shooting That Killed 4 Officers
• Michigan Legislature
• FDA, Red Cross say blood from donors with mRNA vaccine is safe for transfusion
• FY 2025 Budget

Many European leaders have long been nervous that a second Trump presidency would mean decreased U.S. support for Ukraine and NATO. The European anxiety was heightened in February when Trump in a campaign speech warned NATO allies that he “would encourage” Russia “to do whatever the hell they want” to countries that don’t meet defense spending goals if he returns to the White House. Russian forces have exploited air defense shortages in the city, pummeling the region’s energy infrastructure, and looking to shape conditions for a potential summer offensive to seize the city. The administration and a bipartisan group of lawmakers have called the social media site a growing national security concern. If the bill to create the agency passes, it would still need a financing mechanism. The best approach would be to ask voters to approve a local measure in 2024 to fund the agency’s initiatives since it’s too late for advocates to collect the signatures needed to place it on the November ballot.

For the first time ever, ‘Blood In Blood Out’ will be available for streaming

The House vote “will make the United States of America richer, further ruin Ukraine and result in the deaths of even more Ukrainians, the fault of the Kyiv regime,” Peskov said, according to official Russian media. With the imminent arrival of aid, though, Ukrainian forces “will likely be able to blunt the current Russian offensive assuming the resumed U.S. assistance arrives promptly,” the institute said. For instance, administration officials at the speaker’s request briefed Reps. Chip Roy (R-Texas) and Ralph Norman (R-S.C.), two hard-right members who were persistent antagonists of Johnson.

Prohibit donations of certain blood and blood products

Speaking on CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday, Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-Va.), head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said he was confident the U.S. would be able to resume shipments of equipment by the end of the week. As the political infighting dragged on in Washington, Ukrainian officials expressed particular alarm over the systematic destruction of crucial energy infrastructure, such as a power plant wrecked by missiles outside Kyiv this month. In some parts of the country, the targeting of electricity-generating plants has caused power cuts of a scope and duration comparable to those seen much earlier in the war. And Ukrainians were braced for at least a short-term redoubling of the near-nightly pummeling of cities and towns across the country with missiles and drones — which in recent weeks was exacerbated by an alarming depletion of Ukrainian air defenses.

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It is true that House Bill 645 would have made it illegal to donate blood after receiving an mRNA vaccine, but this bill was never passed, according to Montana area newspaper Billings Gazette. A post shared on Instagram claims Montana House Bill 645 has made it illegal to donate blood or tissue after receiving an mRNA vaccine. Legislators have been scrambling to find extra funds to bolster these core programs next fiscal year. Because these “volatile” revenues can’t be touched, they’ve been stripping emergency federal pandemic aid from other programs and re-directing to public colleges and universities and social services for people with disabilities. Biden also signed an initial aid package of military assistance and said shipment would begin in the “next few hours” — the first tranche from about $61 billion allocated for Ukraine, according to U.S. officials. It is expected to include air defense capabilities, artillery rounds, armored vehicles and other weapons to shore up Ukrainian forces who have seen morale sink as the Russian military has racked up win after win.

Michigan Legislature

An April 15 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) claims a bill makes it illegal for millions of Americans to donate blood. Legislators, who renewed these budget controls unanimiously in February 2023, agreed in contract language with the state’s bond investors not to repeal the system outright before July 2028. This volatility program, along with new caps on spending and borrowing and other budget controls, helped end a string of deficits and “control the rollercoaster” effect that volatile revenues can have on state finances, Looney said. The state’s considerable pension debt also is considerable, totaling more than $37 billion entering this year, according to Lamont’s budget office. Materials posted on this page are for informational purposes only and may not include all material received by the Committee. The Committee is not responsible for the accuracy of posted material, and posting does not represent approval or endorsement by the Committee or the Vermont General Assembly.

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Providing tools allowing you to research pending legislation, stay informed with email alerts, content feeds, and share dynamic reports. Use our new PolitiCorps to join with friends and collegaues to monitor & discuss bills through the process.Monitor Legislation or view this same bill number from multiple sessions or take advantage of our national legislative search. Etchart asked in an email when the bill was being drafted whether anyone would qualify to donate blood with the language that was in the bill at the time. She said nearly the entire population has either knowingly had COVID-19 or been vaccinated. Numark said most blood banks are barely meeting the needs of patients today, and with an 80% reduction in blood supply, procedures for accident victims, pregnancy complications and more mundane blood transfusions would not be possible.

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No one in the legislature has proposed repealing this savings system but many have said it should be adjusted to allow more funds to be spent. And none of those projections includes increases in federal Medicaid grants and miscellaneous revenues that will boost this fiscal year’s operating surplus from $86 million to $257 million. European allies, for their part, had watched the drawn-out aid drama with mounting anxiety and exasperation. “I think this support will really strengthen the armed forces of Ukraine, and we will have a chance for victory,” Zelensky said through an interpreter. The House has pushed a $95-billion national security aid package for Ukraine, Israel and other U.S. allies closer to passage.

FDA, Red Cross say blood from donors with mRNA vaccine is safe for transfusion

At that point, anything not passed is dead and bills approved by lawmakers head to Gov. Gavin Newsom to be signed into law or vetoed. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. “An immediate effective date would fit this building emergency,” he said in a January email. From a practical standpoint, Numark said a ban would result in "unnecessary and unconscionable" death.

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An angry Russia could try to get in more punishing attacks before more air-defense help arrives, some feared. In public, the administration deployed a strategy of downgrading intelligence to reveal Russia’s efforts to tighten its ties with U.S. adversaries China, North Korea and Iran to fortify Moscow’s defense industrial complex and get around U.S. and European sanctions. At frustrating moments during the negotiations, Biden urged his aides to “just keep talking, keep working,” according to the official, who requested anonymity to discuss internal discussions. The White House maneuvering to win additional funding for Ukraine started months earlier.

"Our blood is safe," Vicky Byrd, CEO of the Montana Nurses Association, told lawmakers. "Our scientists and our practitioners, we have to trust them. We know what they're doing." Think there's a potential news story to be done about a bill or lawmaker you see here? House bill 891 asks legislators to provide $40.9 million in one-time funding to stabilize nursing homes until a new rate is implemented in July 2023.

In an 82-to-18 vote, legislators acted on the bill with almost no discussion at all. Food and Drug Administration and recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization (WHO), have undergone extensive scrutiny in clinical trials. COVID-19 has been the third leading cause of death since 2021, topped only by heart disease and cancer, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

White House officials came to view Johnson as a direct and honest actor throughout the negotiations, according to a senior administration official. Biden had success finding common ground with Republicans earlier in his term to win the passage of a $1-trillion infrastructure deal, legislation to boost the U.S. semiconductor industry and an expansion of federal healthcare services for veterans exposed to toxic smoke from burn pits. And he knew there was plenty of Republican support for further Ukraine funding. However, proponents said the bill, a continuation of anti-vaccine legislation that passed last session, was about medical autonomy and the right to receive blood from donors had not been vaccinated against COVID-19. "In summary, there is no scientific evidence that demonstrates adverse outcomes from the transfusions of blood products collected from vaccinated donors and, therefore, no medical reason to distinguish or separate blood donations from individuals who have received a COVID-19 vaccination," they said. Numark, senior vice president of a blood collection nonprofit, said there’s no way to test for the components outlined in the bill, including “gene-altering proteins, nanoparticles, high-count spike proteins from long COVID-19, and other DNA chemotherapies, among other COVID-19 related restrictions.

“For years now we’ve heard the words ‘safe and effective.’ Our entire planet has echoed these words. We’ve seen two Montana governors utter these same words...many of my constituents questions, just because we hear these two words ‘safe and effective’ a million-plus times, does that make them true? The Red Cross, which provides roughly 40% of the country’s blood supply, follows FDA guidance for donations and does not require a deferral time for eligible donors who received an mRNA vaccine. The Food and Drug Administration said people who get a “nonreplicating, inactivated or mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine” do not have to undergo a waiting period prior to donating blood, according to guidance issued in January 2022. The guidance also said respiratory viruses are not known to spread through blood transfusion and that there have been no reported cases of transfusion-transmitted coronaviruses worldwide. Montana state Rep. Greg Kmetz introduced it as a constituent bill based on concerns from Montanans about the potential effect of such vaccines on blood recipients, as reported by the Billings Gazette.