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“While I continue to support these bills, I will not support separate actions that worsen the underlying disease of division infecting our country,”

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• Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D., Ariz.) repeated that she wouldn’t support rules changes that get rid of the Senate’s 60-vote threshold, dealing another blow to President Biden’s push to pass legislation to set guidelines for elections nationwide.

• “While I continue to support these bills, I will not support separate actions that worsen the underlying disease of division infecting our country,”

• Ms. Sinema said on the Senate floor. She cited the 50-50 split in the Senate, and Democrats’ narrow majority in the House as voters asking both parties to “work together and get stuff done for America.”

• Joe Biden gave a grimly honest assessment of the fading prospects of his voting-rights agenda on Thursday after Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema said she opposed changing the filibuster.

• On Tuesday, Biden had forcefully called for changes to the Senate filibuster in an effort to pass voting-rights and democracy-reform legislation.

• However, on Thursday, Sinema said in a Senate-floor speech that took many Democrats by surprise that she would not support any reform of the filibuster rule.

• Sinema’s comments came shortly before Biden met with Democratic senators on Capitol Hill, where he sought to sought to rally his party around the voting-rights bill.