Schumer Threatens to Nuke the Filibuster – Again

This will sound like déjà vu, but Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York) is once again threatening to nuke the filibuster. Just like every other time before, getting rid of the Senate’s filibuster rule is a terrible, undemocratic idea. When setting up the American government, the Founders implemented numerous tools to protect the minority […]

What is the filibuster?

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All Night Vote-A-Rama to Push Massive New COVID Spending

This week, President Joe Biden shirked off a request from several moderate Republican Senators to work on a bipartisan coronavirus relief bill. Meanwhile, Senate Democrats led by Budget Chairman Bernie Sanders laid the path for a budget resolution establishing a framework for massive new federal taxpayer spending for coronavirus relief that subverts the 60-vote requirement […]