Opinion writer at the boston globe. Welcome both. Garrett, hit both big issues. Where are we with the latest on Infrastructure Talks and what are the realistic options on democrats on Voting Rights. Ill do the Voting Rights bill because it is short. There are no realistic options to move that bill through the United States senate. 50 republican votes opposed and even the usual moderate republican senators who side with democrats and other key issues like Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins spoke out against this bill yesterday. Republicans say its a federal takeover of elections and they dont like the changes that it makes at a federal level and things like voter i. D. Laws and the fcc, you name it. Theyre not for it unless democrats can find votes to get rid of the filibuster which we talked about ad nauseam and know they do not presently have, that bill goes nowhere. On infrastructure its a different story although with a similar refrain. The challenge there remains what it has always b
Opinion writer at the boston globe. Welcome both. Garrett, hit both big issues. Where are we with the latest on Infrastructure Talks and what are the realistic options on democrats on Voting Rights. Ill do the Voting Rights bill because it is short. There are no realistic options to move that bill through the United States senate. 50 republican votes opposed and even the usual moderate republican senators who side with democrats and other key issues like Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins spoke out against this bill yesterday. Republicans say its a federal takeover of elections and they dont like the changes that it makes at a federal level and things like voter i. D. Laws and the fcc, you name it. Theyre not for it unless democrats can find votes to get rid of the filibuster which we talked about ad nauseam and know they do not presently have, that bill goes nowhere. On infrastructure its a different story although with a similar refrain. The challenge there remains what it has always b
Opinion writer at the boston globe. Welcome both. Garrett, hit both big issues. Where are we with the latest on Infrastructure Talks and what are the realistic options on democrats on Voting Rights. Ill do the Voting Rights bill because it is short. There are no realistic options to move that bill through the United States senate. 50 republican votes opposed and even the usual moderate republican senators who side with democrats and other key issues like Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins spoke out against this bill yesterday. Republicans say its a federal takeover of elections and they dont like the changes that it makes at a federal level and things like voter i. D. Laws and the fcc, you name it. Theyre not for it unless democrats can find votes to get rid of the filibuster which we talked about ad nauseam and know they do not presently have, that bill goes nowhere. On infrastructure its a different story although with a similar refrain. The challenge there remains what it has always b
Constituents before the needs of other interests. From what i have seen bipartisanship is not working. There is no bipartisanship. You have to get rid of the filibuster to get the policies we need passed. Manchin said hes not going to do that. Right, thats why we are here. This is narrowing to an unavoidable choice for democrats. Mcconnell already said publicly that hes 100 focused on stopping joe biden and his actions speak louder. Another white house meeting with a group of senators of stalled talks. Biden moving the curve of gun violence through Executive Action that dont require any gop votes. The department is announcing as i just did of the major crack down. We have an opportunity to come together now as democrats and republicans, as fellow americans of our democracy to keep each other safe. This should not be a red or bluish. It is an american issue. We are not changing the american constitution, we are enforcing it. Progressives are calling biden to go faster and harder and big
Constituents before the needs of other interests. From what i have seen bipartisanship is not working. There is no bipartisanship. You have to get rid of the filibuster to get the policies we need passed. Manchin said hes not going to do that. Right, thats why we are here. This is narrowing to an unavoidable choice for democrats. Mcconnell already said publicly that hes 100 focused on stopping joe biden and his actions speak louder. Another white house meeting with a group of senators of stalled talks. Biden moving the curve of gun violence through Executive Action that dont require any gop votes. The department is announcing as i just did of the major crack down. We have an opportunity to come together now as democrats and republicans, as fellow americans of our democracy to keep each other safe. This should not be a red or bluish. It is an american issue. We are not changing the american constitution, we are enforcing it. Progressives are calling biden to go faster and harder and big