Perhaps this has been addressed, but I would appreciate it if someone could help me out. Why don’t they just use the reconciliation process? After all, this IS a funding bill. Can they not do that, and force Obama to veto it?
Best is to scrap the filibuster altogether. The filibuster has degenerated into a Democrat tool against opposition only useful when it permits a minority Democrat party to block a majority Republican party and to be scrapped when the Democrats have the majority and reinstated when the Republicans are again in the majority. The filibuster served for a long long time as a device to slow down hasty consideration of bills. Now it is only a hindrance to one part of the Senate. Best of all would be to repeal the 17th Amendment. The filibuster used to substitue, lamely but it helped, for the destruction of the previous Constitutional system wrought by the original process for selection of Senators.