Senate Majority Leader John Thune and several other Republicans have announced plans to defy President Trump’s calls to end the filibuster, reopen the government, and pass laws to fix our country and our elections.
This morning, Trump hosted Republican Senators at the White House for breakfast, where he demanded that Republicans terminate the filibuster and the 60-vote requirement to invoke cloture and pass legislation.
“And we should do our own bills,” Trump said, calling on Republicans to pass “all the things that we want to pass to make our election secure and safe,” including ending mail-in voting and mandating voter ID. He even called John Thune out, noting that the Democrats “won’t do any bill, even a simple bill.”
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Trump: It’s time for Republicans to do what they have to do, and that’s terminate the filibuster. It’s the only way you can do it, and if you don’t terminate the filibuster, you’ll be in bad shape. We won’t pass any legislation. There’ll be no legislation passed for three and a quarter— We have three and a quarter years left. That’s a long time. But when they can’t do an extension— and John, I think they’ve done an extension every single time they’ve ever been asked forever. This is the first time they haven’t done an extension. Extensions are supposed to be easy, but if they won’t do an extension, they won’t do any bill, even a simple bill.
And we should do our own bills. We should get out, we should do our own bills, we should open up. We should start tonight with the country’s open congratulations, then we should pass voter ID. We should pass no mail-in voting. We should pass all the things that we want to pass to make our election secure and safe because California is a disaster. Many of the states are disasters, but can you imagine when they vote almost unanimously against voter ID. All we want is voter ID. You go to a grocery store, you have to give ID. You go to a gas station, you give ID.
But for voting, they want no voter ID. It’s only for one reason: because they cheat. We would pass that in 15 minutes. If you don’t get it, you’ll never pass that. You’ll never talk about mail-in ballots. Mail-in ballots make it automatically corrupt. If you have mail in ballots, automatically. It’s correct; even Jimmy Carter, they had the Carter commission after he got out of office, and he had a group of very distinguished people, Democrats and Republicans, and they passed— they recommended things take place. It was a long time ago, and they said about mail in ballots, if there is mail in ballots, there will definitely be corruption, because, you know, they pass through too many hands.
However, Majority Leader John Thune declared after returning from the White House earlier that Trump’s wish is “just not happening,” per ABC.
Other Republican Senators that have been vocal in their opposition include Mike Rounds (R-SD), who said the President made a “really good point,” but doesn’t plan to support the calls. John Kennedy (R-LA) said Wednesday, “when you’re in the minority, we’re not now, but we could be someday, it’s important to have a filibuster.” And Thom Tillis (R-NC) said after the meeting, “there’s nothing that could move me on the filibuster.”
Trump has argued that the Democrats will take the majority next election “because it will be impossible for Republicans to get Common Sense Policies done with these Crazed Democrat Lunatics being able to block everything by withholding their votes.” He has repeatedly called for Senate Republicans to end the filibuster and reopen the government before it’s too late.
“BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT THE DEMOCRATS HAVE GONE STONE COLD “CRAZY,” THE CHOICE IS CLEAR — INITIATE THE “NUCLEAR OPTION,” GET RID OF THE FILIBUSTER AND, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” the President demanded last Thursday.
“Now WE are in power, and if we did what we should be doing, it would IMMEDIATELY end this ridiculous, Country destroying “SHUT DOWN.” If the Democrats ever came back into power, which would be made easier for them if the Republicans are not using the Great Strength and Policies made available to us by ending the Filibuster, the Democrats will exercise their rights, and it will be done in the first day they take office, regardless of whether or not we do it,” he said in a follow up post.
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But last Friday, it was reported that a spokesperson for Thune said, “Leader Thune’s position on the importance of the legislative filibuster is unchanged.”
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