Exclusive: Republican floats vote on filibuster

Thune warns GOP against 'counterproductive' filibuster vote

EXCLUSIVE — Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) told the Washington Examiner he opposes a vote on “nuking” the filibuster, warning that putting Senate Republicans on the record would only stoke GOP divisions over President Donald Trump’s marquee election bill. “I don’t think that serves anybody’s interest,” Thune said in a sitdown interview at his Capitol office, calling the exercise politically damaging to the party. “I think that trying t…

Exclusive: Republican floats vote on filibuster

More Republican senators want to kill the 60-vote threshold for legislation in the upper chamber if Democrats block new ID requirements for voters. The loudest proponent of changing the rules, Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., told Semafor he is not trying to use the “nuclear option” to do it. “I would suggest we vote on a rule change at a 67-vote threshold,” Johnson said. Such a vote — which is bound to fail but would put senators on the record — diffe…