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Democrat’s agenda: near impossible odds?
In the wake of the the Democrat’s sweeping new voting laws being stalled in the Senate, there are concerns the party’s big agenda items will continue to face near impossible odds.
The Democrats achieved a unified government for the first time in the US since 2010 – meaning the control the House, the Senate and the administration.
However, the party’s big ambitions are increasingly running into the Senate’s own rule book and, particularly, the filibuster requirement.
To have a bill move from debate to a vote in the Senate, it must receive the support of 60 members… which is more than half and more than the Democrat’s senate majority.
This growing frustration at the filibuster rule comes.after Republicans moved to block the sweeping voter rights bill known as the “For the People Act” .
Meanwhile, Majority Leader of the Senate, Chuck Schumer says the fight against modern-day voter suppression is “just beginning”.