{"id":281633,"date":"2021-03-22T11:15:28","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T15:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=281633"},"modified":"2021-03-22T11:15:29","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T15:15:29","slug":"trump-ending-filibuster-would-be-catastrophic-for-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-ending-filibuster-would-be-catastrophic-for-gop\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump: Ending Filibuster Would Be \u2018Catastrophic\u2019 For GOP"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/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%2Ftrump-ending-filibuster-would-be-catastrophic-for-gop%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=281633&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\/02\/trump-2-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Former&nbsp;President Donald Trump said if Senate Democrats are successful in their effort to remove the filibuster, it would be \u201ccatastrophic\u201d for the Republican Party.<\/p>\n<p>The filibuster is a procedural provision that allows the minority party to force an open-ended debate on any issue and requires 60 senators to end debate and move to a vote. Without it, a simple majority vote would be needed to end debate, and the evenly split Senate is now controlled by Democrats, which have 51 votes with Vice President Kamala Harris as the tiebreaker.<\/p>\n<p>During an <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vSFNXMTg5NDQ2MzU3MA\/episode\/NjAyMThhOTItODkxOC0xMWViLThhY2ItMWI4ZDQxZWZiODRi?hl=en&amp;ved=2ahUKEwi01o74jMTvAhVgF1kFHfriDakQieUEegQIBhAF&amp;ep=6\">interview<\/a> on the podcast \u201cThe Truth with Lisa Boothe,\u201d Trump said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is barely keeping the provision alive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, he\u2019s hanging by a thread right now with respect to the filibuster,\u201d Trump said of McConnell.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd if they get the filler, he\u2019s hanging on [Sen.] Joe Manchin [D-WV], who always goes with the Democrats. Joe talks, but he ends up going with the Democrats. Now there\u2019s another great senator from the state of Arizona. He\u2019s hanging by a thread and if they get rid of the filibuster, if they knock it out, it will be catastrophic for the Republican Party,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>McConnell, for his part, has vehemently defended the provision, warnings about eliminating the filibuster rule.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me say this very clearly for all 99 of my colleagues: Nobody serving in this chamber can even begin, can even begin, to imagine what a completely scorched-earth Senate would look like,\u201d McConnell said last week. \u201cI want our colleagues to imagine a world where every single task, every one of them, requires a physical quorum.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The filibuster, made famous in the movie \u201cMr. Smith Goes To Washington,\u201d starring Jimmy Stewart, has also drawn support from President Joe Biden, who served in the Senate for more than 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou had to stand up and command the floor and you had to keep talking along,\u201d Biden said of the rule, which required a senator to keep speaking. \u201cOnce you stopped talking, you lost that and someone could move in and say, I move to the question of. You\u2019ve got to work for the filibuster. It is almost getting to the point where democracy is having a hard time functioning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Trump is now saying it would be \u201ccatastrophic\u201d for the GOP if Democrats do away with the rule, he said in 2018 that Republicans should kill the filibuster before then Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and the Democrats do.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump told more than 15 House and Senate GOP appropriators that Schumer, the Senate minority leader, would get rid of the legislative filibuster if Democrats took over the chamber in November. According to several lawmakers, Trump suggested that a mutual friend he shares with Schumer heard this from the New York Democrat and then passed the tidbit onto the president,\u201d Politico reported in June 2018.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump said during the meeting that keeping the filibuster in place could mean \u2018the end of the party,\u2019 according to several lawmakers who attended. Senate Democrats will block much of the GOP agenda, he said, but voters will see Republicans failing to get things done and turn against them at the polls,\u201d the liberal political site reported.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former\u00a0President Donald Trump said if Senate Democrats are successful in their effort to remove the filibuster, it would be \u201ccatastrophic\u201d for the Republican Party.The filibuster is a procedural provision that &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2310914,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/trump-2-1.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Trump: Ending Filibuster Would Be \u2018Catastrophic\u2019 For GOP","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/trump-2-1.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Trump: Ending Filibuster Would Be \u2018Catastrophic\u2019 For GOP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281633","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2310914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}