U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent encouraged Republicans to eliminate the filibuster in a Washington Post op-ed on Sunday. "For generations, the filibuster has been romanticized as the Senate's ...

During the recent government shutdown, we heard the familiar yet alarming rallying cry to abolish the filibuster. The pitch, which even came from President Trump, comes wrapped in phrases like “get ...

The word “filibuster,” which derives from a Dutch term for pirates and plunderers, somehow came to describe those who disrupt legislative business. The practice is much older — Cato the Younger was ...

As the latest and longest government shutdown enters its denouement, Congress will be left to tally the costs and repair the damage. One thing to be thankful for: The filibuster, the procedural oddity ...

As the latest and longest government shutdown enters its denouement, Congress will be left to tally the costs and repair the damage. One thing to be thankful for: The filibuster, the procedural oddity ...

Fairly or unfairly, the majority party pays dearly in the midterms, then ultimately loses the presidency in 2028. GOP senators shrug their shoulders and complain about how powerless they were against ...

To nuke the filibuster or not to nuke the filibuster? That’s the big question as we head into the sixth week of a record federal government shutdown. We keep hearing that the filibuster is a powerful ...

The financial capital of the world has elected a socialist as mayor, while the president is demanding Republicans commit political suicide by killing the filibuster (“Bust the Filibuster at the GOP’s ...

Is It MAHA to Expedite New Drug Approvals? Threats of Violence Are Bad. Actual Violence Is Worse Honduran Drug Kingpin and Former President Walks Free After Trump Pardon Canada’s Radical Secularism ...

Frustrated by the ongoing government shutdown, President Donald Trump has repeatedly called on Senate Republicans to go for the “nuclear option” and get rid of the filibuster in recent days. “It is ...

President Donald Trump knows he’s losing the politics of the government shutdown so far. But that’s not making him any more inclined to give ground on the Democratic demands that could bring the ...