there’s not much democrats can pass without a supermajority (or congressional reform).
Absurd.
The super majority vote is a parliamentary rule and not law. They can skip the super majority with a simple majority vote (as they can with all parliamentary rules).
They skip it all the time… they bypass the “super majority” with regularity. Over 180x the last time I checked.
They could have passed minimum wage increase with a simple majority. Instead, they tied it to a massive budget package.
They never even tried a standalone bill. They performed the bare minimum because it works, people fall for it. It’s an open secret and a bit of a joke, really.
The filibuster rule is a parliamentary thing that could be changed/ignored, but the veto is very much unavoidable. Without 2/3rds they cannot pass a thing Trump would object to, and without 2/3rds they can’t remove him.
So it was a bit of a bullshit thing when a party has house, senate, and president and still can’t vote things through due to the filibuster, but at least for now the democrats are still stuck with the veto.
Absurd.
The super majority vote is a parliamentary rule and not law. They can skip the super majority with a simple majority vote (as they can with all parliamentary rules).
They skip it all the time… they bypass the “super majority” with regularity. Over 180x the last time I checked.
They could have passed minimum wage increase with a simple majority. Instead, they tied it to a massive budget package.
They never even tried a standalone bill. They performed the bare minimum because it works, people fall for it. It’s an open secret and a bit of a joke, really.
The filibuster rule is a parliamentary thing that could be changed/ignored, but the veto is very much unavoidable. Without 2/3rds they cannot pass a thing Trump would object to, and without 2/3rds they can’t remove him.
So it was a bit of a bullshit thing when a party has house, senate, and president and still can’t vote things through due to the filibuster, but at least for now the democrats are still stuck with the veto.