"Russia's invasion of Ukraine must be condemned," says one activist. "But the administration has been telegraphing for weeks that its war aims now go well beyond defending Ukraine."

"The pandemic has shown that governments can rapidly mobilize massive sums of public money," says one campaigner. "This is the moment to do it, and accelerate the transition."

"The real crime," said one critic, "is giving this money to cops instead of using it for air cleaning to protect the American people from the airborne plague that has killed more than a million of us."

"The fate of these small businesses," said one advocacy group, "will be tied to those senators who voted down this lifeline today."

Hungary's strongman prime minister gave the recommendations at CPAC's first-ever gathering in Europe.

Reproductive rights supporters vowed to fight against the ban that begins at fertilization and, like legislation in Texas, "creates a bounty-hunting scheme" for enforcement.