Elizabeth Warren is calling to end the legislative filibuster, the first major presidential candidate to explicitly endorse ending the Senate's longstanding 60-vote threshold
Elizabeth Warren is calling to end the legislative filibuster, the first major presidential candidate to explicitly endorse ending the Senate's longstanding 60-vote threshold.
The Massachusetts Democrat is set to make the announcement at the National Action Network on Friday, just two days after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell invoked the unilateral "nuclear option" to shave off debate time of presidential nominees. Now Warren says it's time to "fight back.""I’m not running for President just to talk about making real, structural change. I’m serious about getting it done.
She added: "That means when Democrats have the White House again, if Mitch McConnell tries to do what he did to President Obama, and puts small-minded partisanship ahead of solving the massive problems facing this country, then we should get rid of the filibuster." Warren had previously said that eliminating the filibuster should be on the table, helping drive a debate in the presidential race over whether to preserve the institutional brake for the Senate minority. But with Democrats like Warren talking about big ideas like the Green New Deal, Medicare for All and new tax plans, it's become more and more clear that a minority of GOP senators could stop them even if Democrats sweep the 2020 election.
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