A GOP breakthrough on gun safety, but Dems opposing Biden’s gas-tax pitch
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Democrats got their way when 14 Republican Senators voted to advance a gun control bill but Democrats are not backing Biden's federal gas tax proposal.
Howard Kurtz currently serves as host of FOX News Channel's (FNC) MediaBuzz (Sundays 11 a.m.-12 p.m. ET). Based in Washington, D.C., he joined the network in July 2013 and debuted on Special Report with Bret Baier to discuss the media's coverage of the George Zimmerman murder trial.
Fourteen Republican senators broke ranks with party orthodoxy and the NRA in a test vote over a series of modest measures aimed at keeping guns out of the hands of dangerous people. That means it will clear any filibuster and undoubtedly pass within days.
Of course, the fact that it took mass slaughter in Texas and Buffalo to prompt such steps favored by most of the public may not win any awards in courage, but given our hyperpolarized politics, it’s a significant moment.