{"id":1123516,"date":"2021-12-15T22:43:30","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T03:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1123516"},"modified":"2021-12-15T22:43:33","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T03:43:33","slug":"exclusive-mitch-mcconnells-filibuster-carveout-sows-republican-dissension-democrat-abuse-of-filibuster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-mitch-mcconnells-filibuster-carveout-sows-republican-dissension-democrat-abuse-of-filibuster\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive &#8211; Mitch McConnell&#039;s Filibuster Carveout Sows Republican Dissension, Democrat Abuse of Filibuster"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-mitch-mcconnells-filibuster-carveout-sows-republican-dissension-democrat-abuse-of-filibuster%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1123516&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1170791268-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell\u2019s (R-KY) debt ceiling deal with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to bypass the filibuster has sown Republican dissension and led Democrats to continue abusing the filibuster, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.<\/p>\n<p>McConnell struck a deal with Schumer last week to allow Democrats to raise the debt ceiling by $2.5 trillion using a simple majority in the Senate, bypassing the Senate\u2019s 60-vote filibuster threshold.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The deal with Schumer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.senate.gov\/legislative\/LIS\/roll_call_lists\/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=117&amp;session=1&amp;vote=00490\">divided<\/a> Senate Republicans, as 36 Senate Republicans voted against the bill, which is three-quarters of the Republican conference.<\/p>\n<p>The deal allowed Republicans, including McConnell, to claim that Democrats would solely raise the debt limit, even though 14 Republican votes enabled Democrats to raise the debt ceiling with a simple majority vote.<\/p>\n<p>The deal serves as a stark contrast to McConnell\u2019s summer strategy, as the Minority Leader&nbsp;urged Democrats to raise the debt ceiling using reconciliation, or without Republican help. However, he struck a deal with Schumer to temporarily raise the debt ceiling in October. The Senate Republican leader then proclaimed in a letter to President Joe Biden that he would not help Schumer raise the debt ceiling. Now, McConnell\u2019s $2.5 trillion debt ceiling deal helps Schumer raise the debt ceiling likely past the 2022 midterm elections.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Although Congress raised the debt ceiling, conservatives argued that McConnell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/07\/mitch-mcconnell-pushing-filibuster-carveout-for-debt-ceiling-to-protect-his-ego\/\">created<\/a> a precedent for Democrats to justify breaking the filibuster to pass their leftist agenda, including voting rights, climate change, and gun control.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, a former senior GOP aide told Breitbart News that the filibuster deal was designed to protect McConnell\u2019s \u201cego.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now, many Senate Democrats said that the chamber should pass voting rights legislation, citing the filibuster carveout.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) said on Tuesday ahead of the Senate floor vote that the one-time carveout shows a path toward election reform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe could not imagine changing the rules. Until last week, we did exactly that. This is a step \u2026 we haven\u2019t been able to take to save our broken democracy \u2026 we changed the rules to protect the full faith and credit of the United States government,\u201d Warnock <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/burgessev\/status\/1470851567054209028?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) said after the debt ceiling vote:<\/p>\n<div class=\"google-auto-placed ap_container\" readability=\"16.409589041096\">\n<blockquote readability=\"10\">\n<p>If Democrats can carve out the filibuster to raise the debt ceiling to avoid economic collapse for millions of American families, then we can do the same thing for voting rights. Our economy was at stake with the debt ceiling, and our democracy is at stake with voting rights. We should abolish the filibuster to provide electoral integrity at the ballot box and take action now to enshrine the will and voices of the American people.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Schumer said he is pushing Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) to back filibuster reform to pass voting rights legislation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a strong belief in the Senate that we can restore the Senate and at the same time deal with voting rights, and that\u2019s what we\u2019re aiming to do,\u201d Schumer <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/burgessev\/status\/1470842928478429184?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">said<\/a> Tuesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) argued on the Senate floor last week that the filibuster deal would be \u201cone more tool\u201d to \u201cabuse the American people:\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.6521739130435\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This debt ceiling bill is a blank check for the Democrats&#8217; reckless tax and spending bill. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aNYhbVDos7\">pic.twitter.com\/aNYhbVDos7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mike Lee (@SenMikeLee) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenMikeLee\/status\/1469079826921402371?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 9, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Lee said in an exclusive statement to Breitbart News that the filibuster carveout led to Democrats already calling for more carveouts, contending that it could lead to disastrous results.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe effect was practically immediate. Before we had even voted to raise the debt ceiling, Democratic senators were already calling for other filibuster carveouts,\u201d Lee explained to Breitbart News. \u201cIf these carveouts were to become the new norm, the Senate as we know it would quickly cease to exist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Senate Republican criticism of McConnell\u2019s move did not solely come from rank-and-file Republicans.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, has criticized McConnell\u2019s move ever since the Minority Leader struck the deal with Schumer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou charged up the hill, turned around, and no one was there, and you stabbed us in the back,\u201d Graham told McConnell last week, according to a senior GOP aide.<\/p>\n<p>Graham said on the Senate floor last week that these types of legislative deals \u201cled to Donald Trump:\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Graham Discusses Debt Limit Amendment On Senate Floor\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9T2XhWiHY9A?start=170&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>Although McConnell has been widely regarded as a master political tactician, many Republicans have questioned his recent political strategy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a pretty short-sighted decision for someone who talks so much about playing the long game,\u201d a senior Senate GOP aide told Breitbart News. Maybe Mitch has lost his nerve.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another senior GOP aide told Breitbart News,&nbsp;\u201cThe Senate barely passed this debt limit filibuster gimmick before Democrats started talking about using it for other things. We eroded the filibuster last week \u2013 there\u2019s no way around that. Democrats are trying to make that erosion permanent. All of this was short-sighted, and I think down the road everyone who voted for this erosion is going to regret it. If Democrats continue to erode or do away with the filibuster, they are going to regret it down the road when Republicans are in charge.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class readability=\"8.3988095238095\">\n<div>Sen. Rand Paul <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/op-eds\/republicans-musnt-enable-bidens-overspending-by-waiving-paygo\">wrote<\/a> in an op-ed for the&nbsp;<em>Washington Examiner:&nbsp;<\/em><\/div>\n<blockquote readability=\"10\">\n<p>This monstrosity of a bill also allows the debt ceiling to go up with a simple majority vote. Republican leadership, which ostensibly guards the filibuster, is allowing this bill to neuter the filibuster with respect to the debt ceiling. The bill sets a precedent that the debt ceiling can be raised without requiring a supermajority \u2014 a big concession.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump blasted McConnell; the 45th president said in a statement last week:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"12\">\n<p>Mitch McConnell, the Broken Old Crow, has just conceded, for absolutely nothing and for no reason, the powerful Debt Ceiling negotiating block, which was the Republicans\u2019 first-class ticket for victory over the Democrats.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class readability=\"9\">\n<div readability=\"13\">\n<p class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\">Trump added, \u201cHe was afraid to play that card even though, without question, they would have completely FOLDED on the Build Back Worse Bill, which will destroy the fabric of our Country and virtually anything else that the Republicans wanted.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><i>Sean Moran is a congressional reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter&nbsp;<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SeanMoran3\"><i>@SeanMoran3<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell\u2019s (R-KY) debt ceiling deal with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to bypass the filibuster has sown Republican dissension and led Democrats to continue abusing &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1123516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1123516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1123516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1123516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1123516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}