A Budgetary Boomerang for the GOP

Republicans will want to tread warily before chipping away at the filibuster in the world’s greatest deliberative body.

AP/J. Scott Applewhite
Senator Thune, joined by Senator Barrasso, the GOP whip, left, at the Capitol, April 1, 2025. AP/J. Scott Applewhite

After the Senate filibuster barely survived a Democratic majority in the upper chamber, the emerging question is whether the tradition of unlimited debate will survive under GOP control. That, at least, is the proposition advanced by the New York Times. It frets that Republican maneuvering over President Trump’s legislative agenda “is making an end run around the filibuster” via “procedural sleight of hand.”

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