Old one President Trump
Donald Trump’s morning reportThe Hill – Biden: Back to the future in immigration, Afghanistan, Iran Juan Williams: Biden reverses the script The memo: Two months later, Biden faces steep climbs MORE is warning Republicans that any effort to abolish the Senate obstruction would cause irreparable damage to the party.
During an interview on the podcast “The Truth with Lisa Boothe”, Trump discussed the minority leader in the Senate Mitch McConnell
Addison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellDemocrats promise to be “bold” – with or without GOP Johnson, Grassley’s indecision freezes major Senate races that Republicans are expected to recover in mid-2022, unless … MORE (R-Ky.) And his attempts to fight the conversation of the progressives to eliminate the long-standing rule of obstruction.
“Look, he’s hanging by now with regards to the obstruction,” said Trump of McConnell.
“And if they get the filling, he’s holding on [Democratic Sen.] Joe Manchin
Joe ManchinThis week: the Senate works to confirm Biden’s choices before the break Meet the Make the Senate Great Again convention Feinstein opens doors to support obstruction reform MORE, which always accompanies Democrats. Joe speaks, but ends up going with the Democrats. Now, there is another great senator from the state of Arizona. He is hanging by a thread and if they get rid of the obstruction, if they knock him down, it will be catastrophic for the Republican Party. ”
McConnell and the Republican Party gave similar warnings about removing the obstruction rule, a provision that allows the minority party in the upper house to force an unrestricted debate on any issue before a vote.
“Let me say this very clearly to all 99 of my colleagues: no one serving in this House can even begin, can even begin, to imagine what a completely scorched-earth Senate would be like,” McConnell said last week of how it might be. as in the upper house, if Democrats remove the obstruction. “I want our colleagues to imagine a world where each task, each one, requires a physical quorum.”
Members of both parties have been using the rule for decades to block legislative pressure on the opposite side of the corridor. The Senate requires 60 votes to end an obstruction and move to a vote. Both parties currently have 50 senators, with Vice President Harris serving as a tiebreaker for Democrats.
President biden
Joe BidenAstraZeneca says the COVID-19 vaccine found 79 percent effective in testing in the U.S. without security concerns The Hill’s Morning Report – Biden: Back to the future of immigration, Afghanistan, Iran This week: Senate works to confirm that Biden choose before the interval MORE, who spent more than three decades in the Senate, last week signaled support for “talking” obstruction.
“You had to get up and command the floor and keep talking,” said Biden of the previous rules that required someone to hold the floor continuously to prevent an obstruction from being broken. “Once you stopped talking, you missed it and someone could come in and say, I move on to the question of. You have to work for the obstructionist. It is almost reaching the point where democracy is having a hard time functioning ”.
Trump has criticized the Republican Party leadership since his defeat in the 2020 elections, painting McConnell as “weak” and saying that the party should seek new leadership more favorable to its policies.
“But if you look at what happened in the election, Mitch McConnell should have fought. You know, he didn’t do anything. He should have fought. They should have fought. This could never have, this could never have happened to a Democrat,” Trump told Boothe.
“What happened to us with the presidential election could never have happened to the Democrats. You would have made a revolution if the table changed, you would literally have made a revolution. And guys like Mitch McConnell, they don’t fight. And now he’s hanging by a thread. It is hanging by a thread. “