Vice President Kamala Harris said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that if Democrats win two more seats in the U.S. Senate, they will remove the filibuster rule to pass abortion and voting legislation.
Harris said, “In less than two months, we are looking at a midterm election in which so much is on the line. Take, for example, the issue of choice. The United States Supreme Court in the Dobbs decision just took away a constitutional right that had been recognized from the women of America from the people of America.”
She continued, “Well, how does that relate to the midterms? Our president has said he will not let the filibuster get in the way. If the Senate though a majority voter, votes to pass the Women’s Health Protection Act, he will sign it into law. You know what that means in the midterms? We need to hold on to the Senate and get two more then we can put into the law the protections of Roe v. Wade. Everything is on the line when you think about the millions of women and the people in America that care about them who understand the significance of women making the decisions about her own body.”
Anchor Chuck Todd asked, “If the Democrats get 52 Senate seats or more legislative filibuster gone? Or just on this issue?”
Harris said, “The president has been clear on this issue and on another very important issue which is voting rights.”
VP Harris: ‘The Border Is Secure,’ Our Immigration System Is Broken
Vice President Kamala Harris said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that the U.S.-Mexico border is “secure,” but our immigration system is broken.
Anchor Chuck Todd asked, “I want to ask about the border. Would you call the border secure?”
Harris said, “I think that there is no question we have to do what the president and I asked Congress to do, the first request we made, pass a bill to create a pathway to citizenship.”
She added, “The border is secure, but we also have a broken immigration system in particular over the last four years before we came in, and it needs to be fixed.”
Todd said, “We are going to have two million people cross that border for the first time ever. You are confident that the border is secure?”
Harris said, “We have a secure border in that it is a priority for any nation, including ours and our administration, but there is still a lot of problems we are trying to fix given the deterioration that happened over the last four years. We also have to put in place a law and a plan for a pathway for citizenship for the millions of people that are here.”
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