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Biden said he would support changing the Senate filibuster rules to codify abortion rights nationally.
The filibuster requires 60 votes to advance most legislation in the evenly-divided Senate. All 50 Democrats and twosay they would support, in theory, legislation codifying abortion, which leaves them 8 votes short of the 60-vote threshold. However, Democrats lack the necessary 50 votes to eliminate or change the filibuster rules.
“I’m the president of the United States of America. That makes me the best messenger,” he said. “I’m the only president they got. And I feel extremely strongly that I’m going to everything in my power which I legally can do in terms of executive orders as well as push the Congress and the public. Of its decision on Roe, Biden said: “It is a mistake in my view for the Supreme Court to do what it did.”
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