Trump says, "It's the only way."
The Democrats have been trying to get rid of the filibuster for years. The filibuster is not part of the original 1789 U.S. Constitution for the operation of the Senate, but was established by a rule change in 1806 and used for the first time in the 1830s.
From USA Today:
The nuclear option happens when the Senate leader calls a vote and then asks the Senate parliamentarian for a ruling on whether a filibuster is justified. A simple majority can then vote to override the parliamentarian and overcome a filibuster that would otherwise require a 60-vote majority.
But that also sets precedent for future votes.
When the late Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nevada, led the chamber, he used the maneuver in 2013 to abolish the filibuster against executive nominees and lower-court judges. This broke up a logjam of Republican opposition to then-President Barack Obama's nominees, but it also enabled some of Trump's more contentious administration nominees to pass this year with slim victories.
At the time, the move was highly contentious.
Trump had more:
This comes after he made a social post in ALL CAPS earlier this week:
As you might imagine, people had thoughts on Trump's recommending said nuclear option (which Republicans used in Trump's first term to confirm judges).
In summary, opinions range from "I think ending this rule might be a good idea given the log-jam of modern American politics" to "Trump is going to use this to declare actual war on Democrat-led states."
So, the usual 😂
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