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by BatmansMom 499 days ago
needs 60 votes to pass senate, not just a majority
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Filibuster is just a procedural rule that can itself be removed by simple majority, and it has already been watered down on a case by case basis when that was politically expedient, so there's no hard line there. It's actually kind of amazing that we still have it.
Not if they pass it via reconciliation.