we need your help badly. the president s message to a room full of graduates from hbcu south carolina state university. chuck schumer has vowed to pass voting rights in time for the 2022 election. and today senate democrats held a special meeting on a path forward for voting rights as well as the build back better plan, but there s still no sign of progress on either of the president s priorities. still here, don calloway and tim miller. don, is this going to get done? is voting rights going to get done? unfortunately, listen, it s not going to happen between now and the end of the calender year. and my fear is well-documented that if you go into next year which is typically a do-nothing year in terms of congressional activity in the cadence of washington, d.c., if you get out of this calender year going into next year there s a much lower chance it will happen because folks don t like to take risky votes or engage in this type of tightrope stuff.
south carolina state university. chuck schumer has vowed to pass voting rights in time for the 2022 election. and today senate democrats held a special meeting on a path forward for voting rights as well as the build back better plan, but there s still no sign of progress on either of the president s priorities. still here, don calloway and tim miller. don, is this going to get done? is voting rights going to get done? unfortunately, listen, it s not going to happen between now and the end of the calendar year. and my fear is well-documented that if you go into next year, which is typically a do-nothing year in terms of congressional activity in the cadence of washington, d.c., if you get out of this calendar year going into next year there s a much lower chance it will happen because folks don t like to take risky votes or engage in this type of tightrope stuff. of course voting rights shouldn t be tightrope stuff, but folks don t like to do this type of of stuff in the election yea