The nation’s capital will mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day with a march for voting rights led by the late civil rights leader’s family
, as congressional Democrats vow to press ahead on voting-rights legislation despite its expected failure.
However, that effort is also likely to fail after Sens. Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin reiterated last week that they wouldn’t support nixing the 60-vote threshold. Without their votes, Democrats cannot make any alterations to the filibuster. “The honest-to-God answer is I don’t know if we can get this done,” President Biden said after meeting with Democrats Thursday. He vowed to keep fighting.
“He said to us in that letter something that is very, very, I would call it consequential today. And that is this: Silence is consent. We have too much silence in the face of what’s going on around us today,” Mr. Clyburn said. Later, he said Ms. Sinema’s argument to keep the filibuster was wrong. He vowed to keep fighting, if the legislation fails this week.
Sen. Mitt Romney , one of a handful of centrists open to working with Democrats, said on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” that he had never gotten a call from the White House on voting legislation but was open to a more limited overhaul. Still, he criticized Democrats’ current bills as a federal overreach.
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