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Have you subscribed to theGrio’s “Dear Culture” podcast? Download our newest episodes now! The face of the fight for voting rights is Black and has been for decades but in 2021 it is an issue that hits every community with new restrictions and negative applications. There are growing and percolating concerns among Democrats that voting rights is not as much of a pressing issue for this White House as they are courting moderate Democrats who don’t necessarily see this issue as important. Meanwhile, there are talks about a carve out of the Senate procedural tool in order for Congress to raise the debt ceiling, bypassing Senate Republican opposition. Psaki said President Biden, the leader of the Democratic Party, is not moving on abolishing the filibuster to fix voting rights. The question remains, if President Joe Biden is frustrated with the lack of legislative movement on voting rights, what will he do? When asked, Psaki returned with a question of what should he do? TheGrio’s retort questioned whether President Biden would aid the Vice President Harris’s portfolio issue of voting rights with support by supporting the end of the filibuster so that action on voting rights can proceed. “And so, I would convey to activists that he is absolutely committed. “And he is frustrated that, despite everything that’s happened around the country, there isn’t more of a movement to get this done - I don’t mean by activists certainly, there’s a movement there - in Congress,” Psaki said.
Update your settings here to see it.Ī bit later in the day in the White House Press Briefing Room the question on the urgency of voting rights was placed before Jen Psaki, White House press secretary. This content is not available due to your privacy preferences. President Beverly Smith said, “it was a wonderful meeting.” Smith went on to say, “we talked about a lot of good things” and that “voting rights is always a part of any discussion.”
On the Northwest Driveway of the White House after the sit down with Harris, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. Fast forward to 2021, the right to vote has been crippled with Supreme Court decisions and states like Texas and Georgia’s restrictive voting laws. Due to racism, the women were not recognized but walked in the back of the line for the right to vote. In 1913, some of the founders of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated participated in the suffragette parade in Washington D.C.
She said, “at my invitation, my Divine Nine family” is here understanding history, “the current and the future falls on leadership.” After the statement, the vice president did not answer reporters’ questions on the filibuster and what the White House plans to commit to on the Black agenda, particularly on voting rights. Harris spoke to reporters before delving into the discussion with the leaders. Vice President Kamala Harris delivers remarks at the start of a roundtable discussion on voting rights for people living with disabilities in her ceremonial office in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on Jin Washington, DC.