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'Partisan' and 'Divisive': Biden's Signature Legislation in Jeopardy Because of Democrat Opposition

'Partisan' and 'Divisive': Biden's Signature Legislation in Jeopardy Because of Democrat Opposition Read Transcript


- Joe Biden has called June

a month of action on Capitol Hill.

But as senators return today,

much of his signature legislationis in danger of failing

thanks to some centrist Democrats.

And it means the For the People Act,

the massive elections reform package

Democrats have proposed, won't pass,

and the filibuster likelywill prevent other legislation

like gun control and the Equality Act

from even making it to theSenate floor for a vote.

The infrastructure billis still bogged down,

with both sides divided overtraditional infrastructure

and so-called people infrastructure

like paid leave and childcare.

The president is pointing the finger

at Democratic Senators JoeManchin of West Virginia

and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona

for the lack of progress on his agenda.

- I hear all the folks on TV saying,

"Why doesn't Biden get this done?"

Well, because Biden only has a majority

of effectively four votes in the House

and a tie in the Senate, withtwo members of the Senate

who vote more with my Republican friends.

- [Dale] Manchin came outagainst the For the People Act

this weekend, calling it too divisive.

- And I've voted in a bipartisan way

in the last 10 years of the Senate,

so I'm doing what I have always done.

Let's unite this country.

We don't need to be divided any further.

- [Dale] Manchin wrotein a home state newspaper

that the voting bill was aboutseeking partisan advantage.

He's now under attackby the progressive wing

of his own party, withCongressman Mondaire Jones

tweeting that "Manchin'sop-ed might as well be titled,

'Why I'll vote to preserve Jim Crow.'"

Frustrated progressive want todo away with the filibuster,

but Manchin and Sinema saythey won't support such a move.

Meanwhile, former President Donald Trump

returned to the political stage Saturday,

delivering a speech at the North Carolina

Republican Party state convention,

saying America is going backward

under the leadership of Joe Biden

and suggesting he could berunning for president again.

- And we're going to lay the groundwork

for making sure thatRepublicans once again carry

the great state of North Carolina

in a number, a year, that Ilook very much forward to, 2024.

- Trump also addressed new evidence

COVID-19 was created in a Chinese lab,

saying China should paythe countries of the world

a minimum of $10 trillion for the damage.

Dale Hurd, CBN News.

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