| Or contrariwise, if they can’t go to simple majority vote for the thing, they won’t be able to pass it. |
BREAKING: President Biden announces that there’s a “real possibility” that Senate Democrats will have to revise the filibuster to a simple majority vote in order to overcome Republican obstructionism on the debt ceiling. RT IF YOU SUPPORT THE IDEA!
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| About that contrariwise: |
[EpochTimes] Sen. Joe Manchin
...Dem senator-for-life from West Virginia. Manchin is one of the approximately one Dem senators who exhibits more integrity than Jello, often even representing his constituents...(D-W.Va.) signaled on Oct. 6 that he won’t support carving out an exception to the filibuster for the federal debt limit, meaning Democrats don’t have enough votes to employ the so-called nuclear option.
"I’ve been very, very clear where I stand on the filibuster. I don’t have to repeat that. I think I’ve been very clear. Nothing’s changed," Manchin told news hounds in Washington.
Some Democrats want to nuke the filibuster to boost the debt ceiling because they’re refusing to use reconciliation to address it, and Republicans oppose their current plans on the limit.
President Joe
The Big GuyBiden
...46th president of the U.S., father of Hunter. He blames Trump for losing Afghanistan....
said late Oct. 5 that there’s a "real possibility" Democrats in the Senate will invoke the option, which would lower the voting threshold to a simple majority from 60.