"But we also need to be honest," Lew told host Candy Crowley. "You can't pass a budget in the Senate of the United States without 60 votes and you can't get 60 votes without bipartisan support. So unless… unless Republicans are willing to work with Democrats in the Senate, Harry Reid is not going to be able to get a budget passed."
Lew, who is a former White House budget director, surely knows that under law only 51 votes are needed--50 if you count Vice President Joe Biden as a tiebreaker--to pass a budget in the US Senate. It's Lew who is not being honest.
Last summer Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), who nominally represents me in the US Senate, made the same false claim.
It's been over 1,000 days since the Democratic-controlled US Senate passes a budget.
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