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The fight breaks down into two coalitions: institutional conservatives and moderates who defend the 60‑vote threshold as a guardrail for minority rights and bipartisanship, and progressive lawmakers a...
The filibuster has reshaped recent decades of U.S. lawmaking by enabling a Senate minority to on major legislation, while also compelling some bipartisan deals to clear the 60-vote hurdle. Data and co...
If Republicans end the Senate legislative filibuster in 2025, the party would gain the procedural power to pass most ordinary legislation by simple majority—effectively converting a 60-vote cloture re...
Removing or weakening the Senate filibuster in 2025 would most directly make it easier for the majority party to pass , advance contentious policy priorities that now require 60 votes, and codify or r...
Democrats are insisting on restoring and expanding dedicated public health funding, protecting Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies, and embedding pandemic preparedness measures into reopening negotiat...