Trump Threatens To Shut Down The Senate If It Won't Help Him Rig The Midterm Election
In a post that Trump clearly had not thought through, the president threatened to not sign anymore bills unless the Senate helped him rig the midterm election.
Donald Trump has been trying since he returned to the presidency more than a year ago to get Senate Republicans to get rid of the filibuster so that he can pass whatever legislation he wants.
Senate Republicans have zero interest in changing the filibuster because they are terrified of what Democrats will pass when only 51 votes are required to get legislation through the Senate.
The filibuster makes the Senate unique because it gives the minority party power to block legislation that hasn’t achieved the artificial threshold of 60 votes in support.
The game in the Senate has always been that if a party controls the White House and Senate, but doesn’t have a 60-vote majority, they will always demand that the filibuster be changed. The minority party will always say no, and around we go.
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It doesn’t matter which party is in control at the time. The dance is always the same.
Donald Trump and historically unpopular presidency are under a lot of pressure, because voters appear determined to vote them out of office, which is why Trump has been trying to get the Senate to change its rules to pass a massive voter suppression bill called the SAVE Act.
Trump knows that he can’t win a fair election, so he is trying to make it more difficult to vote and get tens of millions of Americans removed from the voter rolls.
Trump made what might be the dumbest threat in the history of the presidency on Sunday. We will discuss what it was so stupid below.
