Senate Majority Chief John Thune’s place towards eliminating the Senate filibuster has not modified, a spokesperson advised ABC Information Friday, after Trump on Thursday referred to as on Republicans to go “nuclear” and eradicate the filibuster to move the Republican funding invoice and reopen the federal government.
“Chief Thune’s place on the significance of the legislative filibuster is unchanged,” spokesperson Ryan Wrasse mentioned in an announcement, after Thune dominated out the gambit earlier this month as a path to finish the shutdown.
Thune has lengthy stood agency in his place towards abolishing the time-honored chamber process that requires consensus from 60 of the Senate’s 100 members to advance most laws — as just lately as Oct. 10, saying that the legislative tactic has lengthy “protected” the higher chamber from working as a majority celebration monopoly.
-ABC Information’ Isabella Murray, Lauren Peller and John Parkinson
