'Two members of the Senate...vote more with my Republican friends,' the president said Tuesday.
"I hear all the folks on TV saying, 'Why doesn't Biden get this done?' Well, because Biden only has a majority of, effectively, four votes in the House and a tie in the Senate, with two members of the Senate who vote more with my Republican friends," the president said Tuesday in Tulsa.
Biden didn't name the two senators, but Manchin and Sinema are the two most likely to buck the party on key votes and have come under intense scrutiny from the Democrats, who want to pass major legislation while the party controls both chambers and the White House. Contrary to the president's claim, both Manchin and Sinema have voted in support of Biden's agenda—not with the
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