Former President Trump
Donald Trump The Hill’s Morning Report – Biden: Back to the Future on Immigration, Afghanistan, Iran Juan Williams: Biden turns the screenplay. The memorandum: Two months in, strong Biden faces steep climbs MORE warns Republicans that any attempt to abolish the Senate filibuster would cause the party irreparable damage.
Trump discussed the Senate minority leader during an interview on the podcast ‘The Truth with Lisa Boothe’ Mitch McConnell
Addison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnell Democrats promise to be ‘fat’ – with or without GOP Johnson, Grassley decides indecision the major Republican Senate games will bounce back in 2022 between times, unless … MORE (R-Ky.) And his efforts to ward off the conversations of progressives to eliminate the long-standing filibuster rule.
“Look, he’s now hanging on to a thread regarding the filibuster,” Trump said of McConnell.
‘And when they get the filler, he hangs on [Democratic Sen.] Joe Manchin
Joe Manchin This Week: Senate Works to Affirm Biden’s Prospects Meet the Make the Senate Big Caucus Feinstein Reopens by Opening Up to Support the Filibuster Reform MORE, who always goes with the Democrats. Joe talks, but he eventually goes with the Democrats. Now there’s another big senator from the state of Arizona. He hangs on to a wire and if they get rid of the filibuster, it will be disastrous for the Republican Party. ‘
McConnell and the GOP issued similar warnings about the elimination of the filibuster rule, a provision that allows the minority party in the upper chamber to impose an unobstructed debate on any matter before a vote.
“Let me say this very clearly to all 99 of my colleagues: No one who serves in this room can even begin, can even begin, to think what a completely scorched earth senate would look like,” McConnell said last week. can like. as in the upper room as Democrats eliminate the filibuster. “I want our colleagues to imagine a world where every task, every one of them, needs a physical quorum.”
Members of both parties have been using the rule for decades to ward off legislative pressure from across the aisle. The Senate needs 60 votes to end a filibuster and move to a vote. Currently, both parties have 50 senators, with Vice President Harris as a tie-breaker for the Democrats.
President Biden
Joe BidenAstraZeneca says COVID-19 vaccine found 79 percent effective in US trial without security issues The Hill’s Morning Report – Biden: Back to the Future on Immigration, Afghanistan, Iran This week: Senate works to stop Biden incidents before halftime confirm MORE, who has spent more than three decades in the Senate, last week showed support for the ‘talking’ filibuster.
“You had to get up and command the floor and you had to keep talking,” Biden said of rules of the past that required someone to constantly hold the floor to prevent a filibuster from being broken. ‘Once you stopped talking, you lost it and someone could pull in and say,’ I’m going to ask. You have to work for the filibuster. It is almost to the point that democracy is difficult to function. ”
Trump has been critical of the IDP leadership since his 2020 election loss, portraying McConnell as ‘weak’ and saying the party should seek new leadership that supports his policies.
“But if you look at what happened in the election, Mitch McConnell should have fought. You know, he did nothing. He should have fought. They should have fought. It would never have been possible, it would never have been with a Democrat. , “Trump told Boothe.
“What happened to us in the presidential election could never have happened to the Democrats. You would have had a revolution if the table had been turned, you would have literally had a revolution. And guys like Mitch McConnell, they do not fight. “And now he’s hanging on a wire. He’s hanging on a wire.”