Comment on An american on Reddit wrote: "I’m not sure it’s really a good idea to let legislation through on a 51-49 vote: making a change should really take more consensus than that"

• jacksilver@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yeah, that’s a good callout, you do need 60% to override a presidential veto.

  And that’s part of the reason why we’ve seen a number of 50% Senate votes pass this administration. Since republicans own all three branches they don’t have to worry about one of the other branches stopping it.

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