Biden To Meet With Manchin, Sinema In Last-Ditch Bid For Voting Rights Bill

Jan 13th, 06:20:pm.

Multiple reports say that President Joe Biden will meet with Sen. Joe Manchin at the White House Thursday evening.

President Joe Biden met with Senate Democrats in the Russell Senate. The photo was taken by Chip Somodevilla.

The images are from the same company.

The meeting between Biden and the two Senate moderates was first reported by the Washington Post, which cited two unnamed sources and confirmed by other outlets.

When asked if there's hope of passing a voting rights bill, Biden said "I don't know if we can get this done."

In a speech on the Senate floor Thursday, Sinema ruled out eliminating the filibuster to pass a voting rights reform bill, and Manchin released a statement repeating his opposition to changing filibuster rules.

To have any hope of passing a voting rights reform bill that Senate Republicans universally oppose, Democrats need all 50 members of their Senate caucus to back eliminating the filibuster.

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Manchin said that they have proven that bipartisanship is not impossible. The easiest way out would be to end the filibuster.

Biden said Tuesday that the Democrats had no option but to eliminate the Senate filibuster because Republican lawmakers remained unmoved in their opposition to the voting rights bill. The House of Representatives passed a bill that would create national standards for early voting, allow same-day voter registration, and make Election Day a federal holiday on Thursday morning, but the Senate needs to pass it. The bill must be passed by Monday, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, according to Schumer. Senate Democrats don't appear to have a feasible path forward without all 50 of them.

Critics.

The Republicans claim that the bill gives the federal government power to decide election processes.

Following Sinema's Rejection of Filibuster Change, Biden said that he didn't know if we could get this done.

Eliminating Filibuster will kill Democrats' Voting Rights Bill.

Biden says there is no option but to abolish the Senate.