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Republicans Forced to Remove Sale of Public Lands From Budget Bill (newrepublic.com)

submitted 1 month ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/usa@midwest.social

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[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

When Republicans get sick of being filibustered they will just get rid of the filibuster. It only needs a majority vote to go away.

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 month ago

Ok, that's still a big fight and a dedicated news cycle on the issue rather than being blended into a bloated spending bill with a laundry list of issues. They're getting a bunch of stuff like this ejected by the parliamentarian. If they wanted to go full 'fuck the system', they could just reject these rulings right now.

In the end, the Senate Republicans love having reasons that they can't do unpopular things their base wants. And they love how powerless the filibuster makes the Democrats. They can get most of what they want via the budget, an unchecked executive, and the Supreme Court.