Major issues they promised to deliver on, such as a bill to overhaul voting laws, stand virtually no chance of becoming law. Other Democratic priorities, such as overhauling gun laws , have fallen by the wayside and completely off the agenda. And all that comes amid this grim reality: Democrats face bleak prospects of holding the House next year and chances that the Senate could flip, too. It's not me," Manchin told CNN. At the lunch on Thursday, Democrats discussed what their path was to move ahead on both the voting rights bill and the Build Back Better measure.

Source: CNN December 17, 2021 02:05 UTC