House Speaker Mike Johnson said he plans to move quickly to advance Donald Trump’s signature voter ID legislation through the arduous budget reconciliation process once the House returns to Washington, downplaying the heightened tensions within the GOP after he sent lawmakers home early for the holidays after a few Republicans brought the floor to a halt.
Last week, a small group of conservative hardliners, led by Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, effectively blocked a key procedural vote to advance several bills on the floor out of protest that Congress had not sent the SAVE America Act to the president’s desk.
Driven by frustration, Trump has already held up a critical intelligence nomination and declined to sign a major bipartisan housing package, despite Senate GOP leaders insisting that they do not have the 60 votes needed to overcome the filibuster and proceed with the elections overhaul bill.
they won’t nuke the filibuster. that’s a dangerous move that many even on that side won’t make.
i suspect that they will instead do what trent lott did in 2001 to push some bush bullshit through… fire the senate parliamentarian. that has been elizabeth macdonough’s job since 2012. and she’s already gotten “in the way” of dipshit’s agenda before.
part of the parliamentarian’s duties is to make sure bullshit doesn’t sneak into filibuster-proof ‘reconciliation’ bills.
they are already planning to rig midterms anyways.
I don’t care if the nuke the filibuster, whether or not they do that the next times dems are in power they need to use the immune executive to burn all these traitors to the ground.
Will they? I don’t have a lot of hope there, but any candidate that runs on that will get my vote.
Wait, if that could work, what stops them from just turning Senate procedures into a game of fizzbin? Only the threat of Democrats retaliating in kind when they get power again?