President Biden’s social spending talks with Sen. Manchin are going around in circles…
Congress can’t handle more one or two things at time ….So?
A Voting Rights Bill is now the main focus….
And it don’t look good for passage….
Voting rights week has arrived for President Biden and Democrats as the party attempts to make the issue its centerpiece ahead of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday and following the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
The issue has returned to the forefront for the White House despite a murky path forward. Biden is expected to up the stakes for the party to maneuver in order to pass a pair of voting rights and election reform bills that are considered priorities in a Tuesday speech in Atlanta.
As The Hill’s Brett Samuels notes, Biden and Vice President Harris — who is also slated to speak in Atlanta — both mentioned the threat to the right to vote in their respective speeches to mark the anniversary of the deadly Jan. 6 riot. However, their words are still likely to prove futile in the quest of passing either piece of legislation through the Senate, with Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) showing precious few signs of willingness to scrap the legislative filibuster.
“If the Senate cannot pass the voting rights act before the King holiday, they are making a mockery of the holiday,” the Rev. Al Sharpton, a civil rights activist and founder of the National Action Network, told reporters on a call this week. “If you can find a way to pass infrastructure, you can find a way to deal with the moral structure of this country, and that is the Voting Rights Act.”….