If he won't support ending the Senate filibuster, his support for legislation is meaningless.
Sen. Joe Manchin introduced legislation on Wednesday aimed at requiring fair pay for players on the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team.for the men’s 2026 World Cup, which is being co-hosted by the United States, unless the U.S. Soccer Federation agrees to provide equitable pay to the women’s and men’s national teams. The U.S. women’s team, which has won thedemanding equal pay to the men’s team.in 2019. It went nowhere. His new bill won’t go anywhere, either. He knows that.
“This was a commonsense bill and I am disappointed we were unable to come together to support equal pay for all,” Manchin said of the Paycheck Fairness Act. The filibuster isn’t just preventing Democrats from passing bills related to the gender pay gap or the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team. Democrats are desperately trying to pass the For The People Act, a sweeping voting rights and elections reform package aimed at countering a surge of GOP-led state legislatures enacting new voter suppression laws.
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