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They re concerned also it would not get done in time to avoid a default. moments ago when i talked to joe manchin he made clear democratic leadership reconsider that and go down that budget reconciliation route even though they have rejected it. schumer has ruled out using reconciliation to we can t rule anything. we can t let the debt ceiling lapse. does that mean you re open to killing the filibuster to basically we have other tools we can use. and if we have to use them, we should use them. that last point critical. joe manchin is also rejecting calls to gut the senate s filibuster rules to lower the threshold from 60 to 51 votes to overcome any stalling tactic. he made clear he still is holding firm to that position. he will not agree to change those senate filibuster rules to avoid debt default so all which points to major questions with less than two weeks left before the u.s. hits that deadline. how do they resolve it? not clear yet because the two ....
Going to turn his focus to his overseas travels that he has coming up. but this domestic priority is one of course that remains a huge challenge. but we are hearing from someone who is a critical vote in all of in, the democratic senator from west virginia joe manchin who is telling our own garrett hague that democrats aren t ready to go to alone quite yet on infrastructure. and one reason for that may be because even though these talks right now with the current republican group as you referenced seem to be really a stalling point, there is another group working on an infrastructure proposal also that includes gop senators who may want to meet with the president and the white house is signaling that they are open to that. so we may see those meetings in the coming days and weeks. but what it boils down to, they could ultimately decide that they will want to go the budget reconciliation route. this is something where we ve seen the time line shift so many times. originally it was memor ....
Manchin is right that if you opened up a bipartisan door here you could have done real reform instead of doing just a tax cut? it is real reform, the most significant since 1986. the reality is i sat in joe manchin s office many evenings trying to find a path forward to make it bipartisan. as much as i m sorry that senator manchin continues to torture himself by staying in the party of chuck schumer and elizabeth warren, we think there are ways that joe manchin could have helped us out. but we could not get eight additional democratic senators to get us above the threshold. therefore, we go the budget reconciliation route because this is important to the economy and the american people. talk being 2018, speaker ryan said he wants entitlement reform to be a focus of 2018. here s what the president promised on the campaign trail about entitlements. save medicare, medicaid, and social security without cuts. have to do it. get rid of the fraud. get rid of the waste and abuse, but sav ....