Liberal Democrats are increasingly concerned that the Senate will serve as a legislative cemetery President Biden
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Tensions, for now, are mostly superficial as the party nears an initial victory under Biden: passage of a $ 1.9 trillion giant coronavirus relief bill.
The Senate is expected to pass it this week, and when it becomes law, it will serve as an unmistakable victory in Biden’s first 100 days.
However, this initial victory will dampen fears among Democrats that items passing in the House will die in the Senate unless the party thickens the changes to end the filibuster.
Leader of the Senate majority Charles Schumer
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“I believe and believe that my group believes that we need big, bold action and we will discover the best way to get big, bold action on many fronts,” Schumer said, promising that “people are going to be forced to vote— the bear “.
But the White House on Tuesday tried to avoid the problem in some way: Biden did not receive questions from Democratic senators Tuesday during a brief eight-minute call at the weekly lunch.
The call ended up serving as a popular rally ahead of this week’s vote on the relief measure, but by not asking any questions, Biden also avoided hearing liberal senators about the filibuster or the push for a minimum wage. of $ 15, which was included in the first COVID-19 relief bill was passed by the House on Saturday morning, but is now on ice.
“He said this bill needs to be passed and passed soon,” Schumer told reporters after the call, referring to Biden. He said the Senate “will have the votes we need to pass the bill” and that Congress is on track to send the measure to the Biden counter before federal unemployment benefits expire on March 14.
Asked on Tuesday if he would support filibuster reform if Republicans block Democratic priorities, such as expanding voting protections, Schumer responded: “The bottom line is that we’ll find out: we’ll meet as caucuses and figure out a way to “to achieve the bold action demanded by the American people.”
The confluence of factors ended liberal hopes of raising the federal minimum wage on the COVID-19 bill.
The Senate MP ruled that the minimum wage increase could not be included in the special budget rules Democrats are using to dodge the filibuster in the Senate. This prompted some Democrats to call for the parliamentarian to be overthrown, a step rejected by Biden and Senate Democratic leaders.
It also masked the fact that Democrats in the Senate did not have 50 votes to approve the rise in the minimum wage advocated by the House because of opposition from the Democratic senator. Joe Manchin
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Now the progressives want to pressure Biden to end the filibuster in the hope that it will add to the pressure on Manchin and other Democrats to do so.
However, without Biden’s support, Liberal advocates for changing Senate rules say there is no way to convince Manchin or Senator Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) To support rule reform.
Warn the votes of other centrists: Sens. Chris Coons
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“They won’t feel pressure on themselves to do it unless Biden himself puts that pressure on them,” said Robert Borosage, co-founder of Campaign for America’s Future, a progressive advocacy group.
During Tuesday’s conference call, Biden expressed strong support for raising the federal minimum wage to $ 15 an hour, but stopped supporting scrapping.
He made it clear to Democrats that he does not want distractions from the effort of sending $ 1,400 stimulus checks and other aid to American families and businesses. He indicated that he plans to return to the fight against the minimum wage.
Democrats expect pressure on lawmakers to repeal the filibuster after the House approves HR 1, a measure to reform campaign funding and John Lewis
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So far, Biden has been reluctant to support filibuster reform in the Senate, though he believes legislation to strengthen voting rights is a top priority.
Press secretary Jen Psaki
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“The president’s view on the filibuster is well known,” he said. “It has not changed that view, but certainly any step to protect voting rights, to ensure that it is easier and not harder to vote in the country, we believe is a positive step.”
Two of the strongest voices for filibuster reform are chairman of Senate Senate budget committee Bernie Sanders
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Warren said Tuesday that Biden is right now focused on signing the COVID-19 relief bill rather than how to handle around the GOP’s expected filibusters on minimum wage legislation and other priorities.
Sanders after the call said there will be more efforts to raise the minimum wage to $ 15 an hour.
“Trust me, trust me this will not be the last vote on the minimum wage,” Sanders said. “There will be many votes. This minimum wage bill will pass ”.
Democratic senators in favor of filibuster reform say the parliamentarian’s resolution removing the minimum wage provision from the COVID-19 relief package adds impetus to the change in Senate rules.
“I think this has played a role and I also think that, over time, the impact of the dysfunction that has been driven by a handful of members who do everything, has made our group not relatively divided into change things, reforming the filibuster, to be much more unified that some things have to happen, ”Sen said. Martin Heinrich
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Heinrich said, “The kind of filibuster use we see makes it impossible to do some very basic things that the American people demanded of us.”
“Raising the minimum wage is one such example,” he added.
Brett Samuels contributed.