McConnell could not come up with 50 votes to change the Senate rules.
You are probably right on getting 50 votes to end the 60 vote rule. I think it is time to put senators on record on the matter.
You don’t need 60 votes to pass a budget. Trump is calling that ‘nuclear’, but it isn’t what we normally refer to as the ‘nuclear option’ of changing the senate rules to eliminate the 60 vote threshold.
This is actually a good idea. A budget with some modest cuts in it (the so-called Penny Plan, where one penny is cut each year from every program, thus ending base line budgeting, would be great to implement here) would get the votes of all of those R senators. And you could tack on all the funding for border security and do a ‘DACA fix’ that isn’t anywhere near as much of a sop to the Dems as they would like, getting them to vote against their own issue.
Is it unreasonable to presume that – if/when the Dem party regains control of the Senate – the Dem maj. leader would immediately abolish the filibuster, @SenateMajLdr?
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