Briahna Joy Gray: Biden is keeping the filibuster to have ‘a Joe Manchin presidency’

Briahna Joy Gray, the former national press secretary for Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) 2020 presidential campaign, starkly criticized President Biden over the Senate filibuster a day after Republicans blocked the opening of debate on sweeping elections legislation.

Gray, a frequent Biden critic, faulted the president for not doing more to end the filibuster, saying it gave too much power to centrist Sen. Joe Manchin (W.Va.), one of a handful of Senate Democrats who oppose ending the legislative filibuster.

“This has been the question since day one of the Biden administration: will he get rid of the filibuster or will he let his entire agenda be set by Joe Manchin?” Gray said during an appearance on Hill.TV’s “Rising.”

Watch the interview above. 

 


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