Reporters continue to harass Manchin, Sinema about eliminating filibuster to pave way for Dem agenda

Reporters continue to hound Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., over their support for the Senate filibuster, something critics say is preventing President Biden from pursuing his agenda on Capitol Hill.

Manchin and Sinema have long supported keeping the filibuster intact. However, the two senators are not only being pressured by their Democratic colleagues to get rid of the filibuster, they have also been regularly pressed by reporters on whether they'll change their stance. "You're also just at the center of so many issues in Washington," CNN correspondent Manu Raju told Manchin on Thursday. "One of the issues is that you're trying to get a voting rights bill passed with Lisa Murkowski… There's no sign that there's actually going to be 60 votes to get that done. Some of your Democratic colleagues say Joe Manchin should agree for an exemption, allow voting rights to pass on a simple majority, change the Senate's filibuster rules and do that. Would you be open to that?"