"Senate Democrats are filibustering a Republican measure to reopen the federal government. As the shutdown approached and reached record length, Donald Trump grew impatient at the stalemate and demanded that Senate Republicans "nuke" the filibuster altogether and reopen government on a simple majority vote. So far, Senate Majority Leader John Thune has demurred, arguing the votes (presumably Republican votes) aren't there to take away the Senate minority's weapon of last resort."
"Republicans are never going to support eliminating the filibuster when Democrats control the Senate. The only chance to get bipartisan support for a rule change is when a president who holds the party in his cultlike sway has decided to eliminate it. Democrats should take the opportunity to make the Senate simultaneously more democratic and more faithful to the Founders' vision."
"After years of slow progress toward filibuster reform, nearly all Senate Democrats were committed to get rid of it in 2021 and were stopped by two holdouts who are no longer around ( Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema). But to get technical about it, most Democrats were not trying to kill the filibuster altogether (the so-called nuclear option) but to create new "carve-outs" from the right to filibuster for legislation confirming fundamental rights like the right to vote and the right to have an abortion."
Senate Democrats are filibustering a Republican measure to reopen the federal government. As the shutdown extended to record length, Donald Trump demanded that Senate Republicans "nuke" the filibuster and reopen government by a simple-majority vote. Senate Majority Leader John Thune resisted, saying Republican votes are insufficient to eliminate the filibuster and that GOP leaders expect Trump to calm down and help broker a reopening deal that preserves Republican leverage in a future Democratic-controlled Senate. A proposal surfaced urging Democrats to seize the moment and join in eliminating the filibuster entirely. Previously, most Democrats sought targeted carve-outs for voting and abortion rights rather than full elimination.
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