The reality is that there aren’t enough votes to pass any of the legislation you mentioned in the House or the Senate, and the people who are blocking the progress are Republicans.
They had majorities in both houses and found excuses to not do it.
For example, the Raise the Wage Act of 2023 would massively raise the minimum wage over the next few years. Every single sponsor of the bill is a Democrat. It will not pass because Republicans will probably kill it in committee before it ever gets to a vote.
They can introduce things they have no intention of ever passing as much as they want. When they get a majority, they’ll find the no votes if they reintroduce it at all.
Passing just about anything in the Senate requires 60 votes (a filibuster-proof majority). They currently have 50 members. No Republicans would ever vote for anything that would be perceived as a Democratic victory. Saying that 50<60 is not making excuses, it’s just basic math.
Passing just about anything in the Senate requires 60 votes (a filibuster-proof majority). They currently have 50 members.
They could have done away with the filibuster forever with just 50 votes, but preferred their excuse for inaction to women’s rights, workers’ wages, and lessening the impact of the racist war on drugs.
Next time Democrats have a majority, they need to act with the same unity they demand of their voters. None of this rotating villain shit. None of this “we split the bill into the one we like and the one we ran on but don’t want to pass” garbage. If the party bills itself as wanting to accomplish something, then gets in its own way, all that tells me is that they were lying about wanting to accomplish it.
They had majorities in both houses and found excuses to not do it.
They can introduce things they have no intention of ever passing as much as they want. When they get a majority, they’ll find the no votes if they reintroduce it at all.
Passing just about anything in the Senate requires 60 votes (a filibuster-proof majority). They currently have 50 members. No Republicans would ever vote for anything that would be perceived as a Democratic victory. Saying that 50<60 is not making excuses, it’s just basic math.
They could have done away with the filibuster forever with just 50 votes, but preferred their excuse for inaction to women’s rights, workers’ wages, and lessening the impact of the racist war on drugs.
Tell us your suggestions for how to address this.
Next time Democrats have a majority, they need to act with the same unity they demand of their voters. None of this rotating villain shit. None of this “we split the bill into the one we like and the one we ran on but don’t want to pass” garbage. If the party bills itself as wanting to accomplish something, then gets in its own way, all that tells me is that they were lying about wanting to accomplish it.
Do you understand the basics about the US Senate? Because it seems as if you do not.
Standard centrist gaslighting. Yes, I’m aware of how the Senate works.
If you’re going to bring up the filibuster in response, you don’t know how the Senate works. Or you like how it currently doesn’t.