Actual vote: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00133.htm
Schumer voted “no” on the bill itself, but “yes” to have a vote on the vote. See below.
It wasn’t. It was strictly performative. The majority of the Democrats are aligned with the Republicans and so a super-majority supports Trump. Why? Because they’re all bought and paid for by the same billionaires.
Did I read somewhere it needed 60% majority?
(Edit) I did. It has to do with the filibuster, to get around that they need 60%. Explained here: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/why-is-a-simple-majority-usually-not-enough-to-pass-a-bill-in-the-senate/
The Senate has some weird rules. The vote to approve the bill itself only needed a simple majority. But in order to hold that vote, you first need to hold a different vote to declare that everyone is done talking, and they should just get on with the actual vote already. That vote is what needed 60/100.
The actual vote ended up 54/46, with 2 Democrats voting for it and Rand Paul voting against it (I guess he really doesn’t like these “kick-the-can” resolutions)
Looks like this is the roll call from the first vote (cloture) which needed 60: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00128.htm
And this is the actual vote: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00133.htm
Note that Schumer voted “no” on the actual bill, but “yes” on the vote to have a vote.
Note that Schumer voted “no” on the actual bill, but “yes” on the vote to have a vote.
That’s one hell of a weasel move.
Was it hard, though? They had staunch allies across the aisle.
Cuck Schumer should just become a fucking Republican at this point.
Chuck Schumer should just fucking retire.
TL;DR: the filibuster. The thing the Democrats say they can’t abolish because they need it to block the Republican agenda. Even though they just refused to use it to block a Republican agenda.
