Senate Democrats on Wednesday are planning to force a floor vote to revive a Biden-era immigration policy that automatically extended work permits for hundreds of thousands of immigrants already in the United States.

The Trump administration last year issued a ruling ending the automatic renewal of those work permits as part of its near-total teardown of President Joe Biden’s immigration strategy. But Democrats argue the rule under President Donald Trump will harm American businesses — particularly those in agriculture and food processing — and are tying the issue to what they argue is Trump’s broader failure to address the affordability crisis.

Senate Democrats plan to bypass Senate Republican leaders on Wednesday and bring the measure to the floor by using the Congressional Review Act, which allows Congress to overturn federal agency rules through a simple majority. The push has been led by Sen. Jacky Rosen of Nevada, one of just a few Democrats who won a state also carried by Trump in 2024.

“By forcing workers in key industries like agriculture, food production and construction to lose their legal authorization to work, this rule could lead to a spike in costs at a time when families are already struggling with the cost of living,” Rosen told NOTUS.

Democrats, from moderates like Rosen to the party’s left flank, are running much of their midterm campaigns as a referendum against the cost of living under the second Trump administration.

Senate Democrats will need the support of a handful of Republicans for the resolution to pass and are working to secure support before the vote.

The automatic renewal of work permits for immigrants who filed their applications on time was initially put in place to ease an extensive backlog caused by lengthy processing times at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and to prevent work authorizations from lapsing. Estimates suggest more than 500,000 immigrants would lose their work authorization while waiting for renewal under the Trump rule.

The Trump administration’s axing of the automatic work permit renewals has faced pushback from business groups. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce last week submitted a comment to USCIS criticizing the rule, saying it “would harm the Chamber’s members and the economy more broadly.”

“It would remove valuable employees from the lawful workforce and does not address the government’s underlying concerns,” the group said in the letter.

Republicans in Congress recently used the Congressional Review Act to overturn a rule issued under the Biden administration in order to allow mining near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in Minnesota.