"Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has already begun obstructing Joe Biden’s policy agenda in the Senate. During his remarks on the Senate floor today, he threatened to delay an Organizing Resolution (which determines the power-sharing agreement in the 50-50 Senate) unless Democrats commit to keeping the archaic filibuster rule intact. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has proposed using the same power-sharing agreement from the last evenly split Senate, in which committees have even numbers of members but Democrats assume the chairmanships. McConnell also wasted no time attacking Joe Biden’s opening executive orders and warned that the Republican caucus was prepared to block Biden's key policy priorities.
"Yes, Mitch McConnell is threatening to filibuster a resolution in order to ensure the filibuster rule stays in place. If this doesn’t convince Democrats that getting rid of it must be their first priority, I don’t know what will. Joe Biden hasn’t even been in office for 24 hours and already Republicans are gearing up to obstruct and undercut him at every turn. If the filibuster remains intact, Senate Republicans will keep the Senate in gridlock, blame Democrats for it, and then run on Democrats’ supposed incompetence in the 2022 midterms. The filibuster needs to go. Immediately."
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