Today, we're going to talk about the next steps on the For The People Act, now that Republicans

blocked debate on the bill, as well as the two-track infrastructure proposals making their

way through Congress.

I interview a member of the Pennsylvania State House, Brian Sims, about his viral moment

where Republicans cut his mic, along with the possibility of an Arizona-style audit in

PA, and I chat with the host of Fox LA, Alex Michelson, about the infrastructure package,

and what's next for Joe Manchin and the filibuster.

I'm Brian Tyler Cohen, and you're listening to No Lie.

When we spoke last week about the fact that Joe Manchin came out in support of a number

of provisions in S1 before the People Act, and that he would vote to move forward with

debate on the bill, and we spoke about how this would probably be moot anyway because,

thanks to the filibuster, it would require 10 Republicans to also vote to open debate, and

not only weren't there 10 Republicans, there wasn't even one Republican, and so S1 wasn't

able to move forward, but here's why I think this doesn't mean it's the end of the line

for S1.

The fact is that we were never going to get 60 votes on that bill, at any point.

And the filibuster was going to remain intact until at least Republicans got caught

abusing it because Joe Manchin is dead set on giving Republicans the opportunity to

prove him right when he says that the Senate can still function with the filibuster in

place.

Now we all know that the Senate can't function, we all know that Republicans aren't interested

in the Senate functioning, but Manchin threw down that marker, and so of course he's

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