BREAKING: Biden backs changing Senate filibuster rules to pass abortion, privacy protections and voting legislation
MADRID -- President Joe Biden said Thursday that the Supreme Court's decision ending a constitutional right to abortion is"destabilizing" and that he supports changing Senate rules to codify nationwide abortion protections. He maintained the ruling does not affect U.S. standing on the world stage as he took credit for modernizing the transatlantic alliance to adapt to new threats from Russia and China.
"America is better positioned to lead the world than we ever have been," Biden said."But one thing that has been destabilizing is the outrageous behavior of the Supreme Court of United States in overruling not only Roe v. Wade, but essentially challenging the right to privacy." Biden said he would support changing the Senate filibuster rules, which require 60 votes to pass most legislation, to allow bringing a bill extending nationwide abortion protections to pass by simple majority, but he said it would likely require voters to send additional Democratic Senators to Washington to get done.
"The world has changed, changed a great deal since then," Biden said."This summit was about strengthening our alliances, meeting the challenges of our world as it is a day, and the threats we're going to face in the future," Biden said.
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