President Joe Biden dinged Republicans for a raft of voting changes, contending the GOP in states such as Georgia is attempting to manipulate the vote to their advantage.
“We have a system that does both with integrity and independence, but Republicans want to do what no political party has ever tried to do: get to decide if your vote counts,” Biden told donors Monday in his first DNC fundraiser as president. “It’s outrageous. We’re going to fight like hell to make sure that doesn’t happen.”
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The Department of Justice announced last week it would challenge Georgia’s new election law in court. Democrats claim the changes limit ballot access, especially among minority voters, while Republicans insist it shores up security issues.
The DOJ lawsuit was filed days after Senate Republicans blocked debate of the Democrats’ sweeping reform bill, S. 1, known as H.R. 1 in the House. The “For the People” Act would have overhauled public campaign financing rules and created automatic voter registration.
As Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi work to keep their narrow majorities together to pass a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure deal and a potentially $6 trillion “soft” infrastructure reconciliation measure, Biden urged Democrats to unite.
Schumer suggested the proposals will be considered by the Senate next month.
“We won in 2020 as a unified party, and we need to stay unified to do the big, consequential things,” Biden said. “If we make the right decisions in the next four — few years, in 50 years, people will look back and say, this was the moment America won the future.”
Touting his first foreign trip, Biden skimmed over the problems he created last week by linking the passage of the frameworks, threatening to veto the bipartisan compromise if the expansive counterpart does not also land on his desk.
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“This agreement, this infrastructure bill, signals to the world that we can function. We can deliver. We can do significant things and show that America’s back,” he added.
