Re: Trump just revealed his shocking plan for Democrats to 'most likely never attain power' again

"Leroy N. Soetoro" <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]: 

> https://www.nj.com/politics/2025/11/trump-just-revealed-his-shocking-pl
> an- for-democrats-to-most-likely-never-attain-power-again.html
> 
> President Donald Trump is going all out on eliminating the Senate 
> filibuster after Democrats clinched sweeping victories in closely
> watched races on Election Night.
> 
> In his first public comments Wednesday, Trump once again called on 
> Republicans to terminate the filibuster — after urging the GOP last
> week to use the “nuclear option” to reopen the government amid an
> ongoing partisan standoff. The repeated plea came as the president
> asked his party in an all-caps Truth Social post to scrap the measure
> and “GET BACK TO PASSING LEGISLATION AND VOTER REFORM,” right after
> races were called for Democrats in New Jersey, New York City and
> Virginia. 
> 
> The Senate filibuster — which requires a 60-vote threshold for most 
> legislation to be brought to the floor and to advance — has been
> debated in recent years among both sides of the political aisle in a
> time of heightened partisanship. The GOP’s stopgap bill, which passed
> the House in September, has failed 14 times to reach that threshold in
> the Senate, as Democrats have remained united around a separate bill
> centered on extending expiring Obamacare subsidies.


      Trump was all about preserving 
the filibuster when the GOP was the 
minority party in the Senate.