other options. what do other options look like? sahil, i want? point so this is not that president is that demonstrative about things. he doesn t announce that he s doing things. so how do you move past an intransigent republican caucus in the senate? what does moving ahead look? like ate? ali, president biden haso options here. at the first is budget reconciliation. that is a process in the senate where you can pass laws that change the way the federal government spends and taxes with a simple majority. that is 50 votes, that democrats have in the senate plus the tie breaking vote of vice president kamala harris. that is of course for me -limited. only to budgetary measures. the second option is to weaken or abolish the filibuster. the 60 vote threshold is necessary to achieve the path almost all other pieces of legislation have. right now, democrats do not have the 50 out of 50 votes they would need to abolish the filibuster. there are two holdouts in particular, joe manchin of we