Again…
The US Senate allows the minority party to stop anything from getting done if the majority party allows it…
The process of the ‘filibuster’ CAN be set aside with a simple majority…
Senator McConnell did just that during the Trump admin…
Democrats have a problem…
There own Senate members WANT the Republicans to be able to block things…
That majority that everybody though Democrats had in the Senate?
REALLY isn’t….
And it’s their parties people fault…
The question going forward is what will Biden and Democrats do?
There’s growing support within the caucus, even as recently as this week, for nixing the legislative filibuster in order to pass key priorities, building pressure on Schumer and Biden.
“I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about this, and to be honest I started out believing we should keep the filibuster. … But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that the filibuster has long been the enemy of progress. In fact, it’s been a highly effective tool to thwart the will of the people,” Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.) wrote in a Facebook post this week.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), who had previously expressed an openness to cutting the filibuster, also told Mother Jones after the House’s passage of H.R. 1 that “I would get rid of the filibuster.”
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), who has long supported filibuster reform, said during an MSNBC interview that while the caucus didn’t currently have the votes to get rid of the filibuster, it could potentially reform it.
“One of the reforms we’re thinking about when it comes to the filibuster is just going back to the old days and saying if you want to stop something from passing then you actually have to sit on the floor, you actually have to give speech after speech,” Murphy said.
But to nix or reform the filibuster, Democrats would need every senator in their 50-member caucus and Vice President Harris. It’s not clear if growing support from colleagues or even the prospect of entrenched opposition will sway the caucus’s biggest opponents to getting rid of the rule….
Per the Biden Press Sec….
The President does NOT want any changes innthe filerbuster policy rules in the US Senate….
And he says he has no problem with Manchin
This IS going to be something headlined in the media
The dissatisfaction among Democrats looking for some power moves from their power’s Majority in the senate and congress….