White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, during a recent podcast appearance, said that President Trump still wants to see the Senate filibuster become a relic.
Pointing to his accomplishments so far during Trump’s first year in office, Leavitt told Pod Force One host Miranda Devine, “It’s really a moot point, and he wants to see it gone so that he can have the most productive three years of any president ever.”
“There’s so much more work to do: Election integrity, voter ID, getting rid of universal mail in ballots. All of that can be done if Congress works together and gets rid of the filibuster,” she continued.
“Republicans need to get off their butts and move, and that’s what the President wants to see them do, and that’s what the American people are expecting.”
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He is in total agreement that we need to let go of the filibuster. It’s not serving the purpose that it originally intended to serve anymore. It’s really a moot point, and he wants to see it gone so that he can have the most productive three years of any president ever. He’s already been so productive in his first term— he ushered through the largest middle class tax cut in just six months, which is amazing.
There’s so much more work to do: Election integrity, voter ID, getting rid of universal mail in ballots. All of that can be done if Congress works together and gets rid of the filibuster. So, the President is definitely talking a lot about that, both publicly and privately. I know he’s expressed his opinion on that to leaders in the Senate who may agree or disagree.
We’ll have to see how it shakes out. But there’s so much that can be accomplished, and we must take advantage of having the most productive President in the Oval Office. You know, Republicans need to get off their butts and move, and that’s what the President wants to see them do, and that’s what the American people are expecting.
Trump has repeatedly called on the GOP to wield their power since last month, arguing that the Democrats have already tried and will try again when they’re back in power.
During a press conference earlier this month, amid the Senate Democrats’ historic government shutdown, Trump called for Republican Senators to terminate filibuster to reopen the government and pass election integrity laws with voter ID and one-day voting, border security, tax cuts, and “so many things” that the Democrats will never vote for.
“The way to do it for the Republicans is to terminate the filibuster,” Trump said. “I wouldn’t have been in favor of that a long time ago, but you know, the Democrats are going to do that, and most of you will admit the Democrats are going to do that. So why aren’t we doing it? And I think only a foolish person would be against that, especially when you realize that these are crazed people.”
Trump then pulled out a list of “things that we’d pass if we terminated the filibuster,” including voter ID requirements, banning mail-in voting, cashless bail reform, ending transgender insanity in women’s sports, and ending taxpayer-funded benefits for illegal aliens.
(VIDEO) “They’re Making a Big Miskake” – Trump Demands Republicans Terminate Filibuster, Reads a List of Bills They Could Pass: “It Doesn’t Make Any Sense that a Republican Would Not Want to do That”
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