Cameron Arcand

Yeah.

So Senator Mike Lee, who's the Republican from Utah, is calling on President Trump to even take constitutional action to bring Congress back into Senate, to bring the Senate back.

Now, the reason for this is there was two different versions of the shutdown deal passed last week, meaning that the shutdown is still going on because there was nothing that actually got sent to the president's desk.

Now, the issue with this is that lawmakers went on their Easter Passover break, which is expected to last two weeks.

last week after they each passed these bills.

So you have lawmakers on vacation right now while this department is still closed.

Now, White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt said that he is encouraging Congress to come back, but it's unclear at this point whether or not he will take constitutional action to bring the Senate back into session.

So I just talked with Senator Rick Scott, who is one of the proponents of getting rid of the filibuster.

And proponents of getting rid of the filibuster on the Republican side are arguing that this is the best path forward, not only to fully fund the Department of Homeland Security, but also to get the Senate moving again.

As you know, we've discussed before.

The Save America Act is that voter identification bill that a lot of conservatives really want to see passed, but they can't seem to get past that 60 vote threshold in Congress because there's less than 60 Republican senators and Democrats are not planning to back this proposal.

So when we see situations like this, this is where the filibuster would come into that.

However, as Scott told me, the Senate does not seem to have the votes to get rid of that, even though a couple of years ago, back in 2022, Democrats actually wanted to end the filibuster with the exception of Sinema and Manchin in order to pass their own voting legislation.

So obviously, times have changed in regards to where they stand on that.

Yes, but it would be difficult.

So Senator John Hoeven and some others have floated the possibility of going through the reconciliation process, which is a very, very fancy way of saying a budget bill.

Now, these have a much difficult route in order to getting to the floor.

However, they don't require the 60 vote threshold that we're seeing with some of these other pieces of legislation.

Now, you might not know what reconciliation is, but you probably have heard of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

That was a type of reconciliation bill.