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admitted her desire to see senators abolish the filibuster was a partisan hope rather than a strictly principled position.
“Look, I think this is where it goes back to before this election, right? If we had had control of the trifecta and got rid of the filibuster to pass minimum wage, to pass paid sick leave, to pass many of these things that are passing abortion access, that are passing on ballot measures that are so popular, those aren’t going to the state legislatures either, those are going to the ballot, then I think we would have built some trust with the American people,” she said.
Democrats have been shuffling toward reforming or completely removing the rule in the Senate that, in practice, requires 60 senators to pass most legislation. There are exceptions to the rule, most notably when it comes to approving political appointees such as judges. Attempts to blow up the filibuster to give President Joe Biden the ability to appoint more justices to the high court or to codify abortion protections after the Supreme Court struck downwere thwarted by Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema . Both Democrat-turned-independent senators voted in favor of using reconciliation to push through massive spending plans but balked at calls to erode the rule protecting the minority party from getting trampled by a simple majority in the chamber.
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