• DarkCloud@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    Dems win if voter turn out is too high, so Republican block attempts to make it a day off. So why didn’t Biden push it through when Dems last had the house and the senate?

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      18 days ago

      Because Dems need something to cry about every cycle. They could do so many things if they actually wanted to.

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      18 days ago

      Because they’ve never had the senate. You need 60 votes to get past the fillabuster and to fix THAT you’d need Sinama and Manchin to agree to that.

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      18 days ago

      why didn’t Biden push [it] through when Dems last had the house and the senate?

      I think that’s only been 4 months out of the last 50 years, and I bet there was some pretty fundamental stuff to unfuck first. And then they ran out of time.