Trump Blinks, Orders Senate To Kill Filibuster

 

Feeling the heat from polls that show the majority of the public blames him and his MAGAt Congress for the devastating government shutdown, the Malignant Fascist virtually ordered the Senate MAGA majority to kill the filibuster rule and put a stopgap 2026 spending bill up for a majority vote.  The Dems would have no way of leveraging the filibuster to get concessions from the majority, but conversely the Republicans and the MF would have to take full responsibility for the damaging cuts to programs from SNAP to children's cancer research, to drastic cuts in education and other domestic programs.  From the Associated Press:

"President Donald Trump is calling on the Senate to scrap the filibuster, so that the Republican majority can bypass Democrats and reopen the federal government.

“THE CHOICE IS CLEAR — INITIATE THE ‘NUCLEAR OPTION,’ GET RID OF THE FILIBUSTER,” Trump posted Thursday night on his social media site, Truth Social.

The filibuster is a long-standing tactic in the Senate to delay or block votes on legislation by keeping the debate running. It requires 60 votes in a full Senate to overcome a filibuster, giving Democrats a check on the 53-seat Republican majority that led to the start of the Oct. 1 shutdown when the new fiscal year began.

Trump’s call to terminate the filibuster could alter the ways the Senate and congressional dealmaking operate, with the president saying in his post that he gave a “great deal” of thought to the choice on his flight back from Asia on Thursday."

As the article points out, the Senate will be out over a long weekend; the House has been out for a month, largely because Pipsqueaker of the House Mike Johnson and the MF don't want a vote to pass the discharge petition for the Epstein files.  Johnson has avoided swearing in Rep. Grijalva of Arizona who would provide the decisive vote on the Epstein measure.