Former President Trump
Donald Trump The Hill’s Morning Report – Biden: Back to the future on immigration, Afghanistan, Iran Juan Williams: Biden the script revolves around The Memo: Two months later, strong Biden faces steep climbs MORE warns Republicans that any attempt to abolish the Senate filibuster would do irreparable damage to the party.
During an interview on the podcast “The Truth With Lisa Boothe”, Trump discussed the Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell
Addison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnell Democrats promise to go ‘bold’ – with or without GOP Johnson, Grassley’s indecision freezes major Senate racing Republicans that will recover big in the meantime of 2022 unless … MORE (R-Ky.) And his attempts to counter the talk of progressives to eliminate the long-standing filibuster rule.
“Look, he’s hanging by a thread now regarding the filibuster,” Trump said of McConnell.
And when they get the filler, he holds on [Democratic Sen.] Joe Manchin
Joe Manchin This Week: Senate Works To Confirm Biden Choices Ahead of Hiatus Meet the Make the Senate Great Again Caucus Feinstein Opens Door to Support Filibuster Reform MORE, who always goes with the Democrats. Joe talks, but he ends up with the Democrats. Now there is another great senator from the state of Arizona. He’s hanging by a thread and if they throw the filibuster out, if they take him out, it will be catastrophic for the Republican Party. ”
McConnell and the GOP have issued similar warnings about the abolition of the filibuster rule, a provision that allows the minority party in the upper house to force an unrestricted debate on an issue before a vote is taken.
“Let me say this very clearly to all 99 of my colleagues: no one serving in this room can even begin, even begin to imagine what a completely scorched senate would look like,” McConnell said last week of how it could look like. as in the upper house when Democrats eliminate the filibuster. “I want our colleagues to imagine a world where every task, every one of them, requires a physical quorum.”
Members of both parties have used the rule for decades to block legislative nudges from across the aisle. The Senate needs 60 votes to end a filibuster and proceed to a vote. Currently, both sides have 50 senators, with Vice President Harris serving as a unifying vote for the Democrats.
President Biden
Joe BidenAstraZeneca Says COVID-19 Vaccine Has Been Found 79 Percent Effective in US Study Without Safety Concerns The Hill’s Morning Report – Biden: Back to the Future on Immigration, Afghanistan, Iran This Week: Senate Working on Choices van Biden prior to the break to confirm MORE, who spent more than three decades in the Senate, last week expressed support for the ‘talking’ filibuster.
“You had to get up and take command of the floor and you had to keep talking,” Biden said of past rules that require someone to keep speaking all the time to avoid breaking a filibuster. Once you stopped talking, you lost that and someone could come in and say, I’m going to ask. You have to work for the filibuster. It’s almost getting to the point where democracy has a hard time functioning. “
Trump has criticized GOP leadership since his 2020 election loss, painting McConnell as “weak” and saying the party should seek new leadership that better supports his policies.
But if you look at what happened in the election, Mitch McConnell should have fought. You know, he didn’t do anything. He should have fought. They should have fought. That never could have happened, that could never have happened to 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 tables were turned, you would have literally had a revolution. And guys like Mitch McConnell, they don’t fight. And now hangs out. he’s hanging by a thread. He’s hanging by a thread. “