Nuking the filibuster would come back to haunt Republicans

New York Post ^ | November 7, 2025 | David Harsanyi

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

How about just go back to regular order and pass separate budget bill for each department and eliminate the need for continuing resolutions to keep the government open?

I guarantee dems will keep looking for opportunities for dishonesty. RINOs too.

[Eleutheria5]

The window for enacting it is closing soon.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

The window for enacting it is closing soon.

I'm not sure when the senate can change its rules. Is it only when a new term starts, or what? Sometimes I think they don't want us to know....

[Eleutheria5]

Since the Senate only has elections for a third of its members every two years, and they serve for a term of six years each, I have no freakin’ idea how they enact any rules at all, ever.

[Political Junkie Too]

I'm not sure when the senate can change its rules.

That's the very definition of the "nuclear option."

The "nuclear option" is changing the Senate rules ad hoc mid-session, and not at the beginning of a Congress when they vote on the rules package.

-PJ

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

Thanks. Is changing the senate rules mid session illegal/unconstitutional or just unexpected? Some would call abolishing the senate filibuster, even at the start of a new congress, “the nuclear option.” That’s what I thought it meant.