Trump wants to scrap filibuster to end government shutdown
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Republican congressional leaders held firm Friday in their support for the Senate’s legislative filibuster, resisting President Donald Trump’s latest call for Republicans to repeal the 60-vote threshold to reopen the government and advance his agenda with only a simple majority.
President Donald Trump is calling on the Senate to scrap the filibuster, so that the Republican majority can bypass Democrats and reopen the federal government.
The Senate filibuster is preventing meaningful legislation from being passed, leading to a government that is not functioning as it should, and executive orders becoming the only alternative.
Proposals to end the filibuster were wrong when Democrats made them in the Biden years, and they are wrong when Republicans make them in the Trump years.
President Donald Trump is calling on the Senate to scrap the filibuster, so that the Republican majority can bypass Democrats and reopen the federal government.
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