FTA: "President Joe Biden said on the campaign trail that he doesn’t want to kill the filibuster. As president, that position hasn’t changed, at least publicly.
On Friday, White House press secretary Jen Psaki insisted Biden didn’t support repealing the rule requiring a 60-vote margin to move most bills through the Senate: “He has spoken to this many times. His position has not changed,” she said, according to the Washington Examiner.
In December 2019, Biden told The New York Times editorial board that “there’s a lot of things people agree on, though you don’t — there’s two things. One is that there are a number of areas where you can reach consensus that relate to things like cancer and health care and a whole range of things. I think we can reach consensus on that and get it passed without changing the filibuster rule.”
FTA: "President Joe Biden said on the campaign trail that he doesn’t want to kill the filibuster. As president, that position hasn’t changed, at least publicly.
On Friday, White House press secretary Jen Psaki insisted Biden didn’t support repealing the rule requiring a 60-vote margin to move most bills through the Senate: “He has spoken to this many times. His position has not changed,” she said, according to the Washington Examiner.
In December 2019, Biden told The New York Times editorial board that “there’s a lot of things people agree on, though you don’t — there’s two things. One is that there are a number of areas where you can reach consensus that relate to things like cancer and health care and a whole range of things. I think we can reach consensus on that and get it passed without changing the filibuster rule.”
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