OnPolitics: Democrats struggle to pass voting rights bill

Happy Monday, OnPolitics readers!

This week, the Senate could vote on the For the People Act, a bill that would strengthen voting rights.

There’s one tiny problem: Democrats probably don’t have enough votes to pass the legislation.

Meanwhile, Joe Biden just may be the most LGBTQ-friendly president in U.S. history.

It’s Mabinty, with the news of the day.  

The Democrats’ uphill climb to pass voting rights legislation 

The Senate is poised to consider voting rights legislation this week, possibly voting as soon as Tuesday. Its passage looks unlikely, but Democrats are working overtime to unify in its favor as Republicans stand firm in opposition. 

Democrats hailed the For the People Act – a sweeping bill aimed at protecting voters’ rights, increasing election security and mandating independent redistricting, among other provisions – as a bold countermeasure to restrictive voting measures pursued in several states. Republicans slammed the legislation as overreaching.

It didn’t go well.

Biden’s ambitions and former President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s programs and the World War II spending that lifted the nation out of the Great Depression.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who has been at the forefront of selling the infrastructure component of Biden’s plan, calls it the “largest jobs package since World War II.”

Biden’s plan to give all Americans access to affordable and reliable high-speed internet evokes the New Deal initiative to bring electricity to rural America. Updating Roosevelt’s Civilian Conservation Corps that put millions of men to work on conservation and development projects on rural lands, Biden wants to create a Civilian Climate Corps to address the threat of climate change.

Tick-tock 🕰: After swift passage of a $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package in March, Biden’s hope of making generational and transformational changes is running up against the reality of a closely divided Congress and the clock.

Presidents typically achieve their biggest accomplishments early in their first terms. Democrats have no room for error in the 50-50 Senate, and Manchin has resisted moving forward without support from some Republicans.

It’s #NationalSelfieDay, go take a pic 📸 ! — Mabinty 

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