Stop to the US Senate, from the Republicans, to the provision for the defense of the right to vote which contains the provisions of the "Freedom to Vote Act" and the "John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act".
This is the measure strongly supported by Joe Biden and the Democrats and which aims to defend and strengthen voting rights after the squeezes decided in several conservative US states.
The senators who voted in favor of the measure were 49, those against 51. The green light would have required 60 "yes".
"Deep disappointment" by Joe Biden for the lack of green light for the electoral reform with which the US president had promised to protect access to the polls for African Americans.
"I am deeply disappointed that the Senate has failed to defend our democracy. I am disappointed, but I am not discouraged," the Democratic leader said on Twitter immediately after the upper house vote.
The vote came, among other things, on the day when Biden presented the balance sheet of his first year in the White House at a press conference.
A YEAR AT THE WHITE HOUSE - His presidency has been marked in the last six months by a series of debacles and a collapse in the polls, which now give him around 40%, worse than Donald Trump after the first halfway point. A thud shared with his increasingly evanescent deputy Kamala Harris, who in these first 12 months has failed to stand out as his possible heir but with whom the president has promised to run in 2024.
Biden tried to proudly glorify the half-full glass, lining up all the successes of his administration and dispensing optimism about the unsolved problems. Here are the "historic advances" in the economy that a year ago "was on the verge of collapse" and which now boasts an unemployment rate of 3.9% (versus 6.4%) and a record 6, 4 million new jobs (against the loss of 9.4 million). Or the turning point in the pandemic, with 74% of adults fully vaccinated (up from 1% a year ago) and 95% of schools open (up from 46%). The successes also boasted are the 1.9 trillion anti Covid aid plan and the 1.250 billion one on infrastructures.
