John Thune

But the Democrats have made it clear they would love to get rid of the filibuster to enact their agenda, which includes statehood for Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., an expanded Supreme Court, up to 15 seats there, abortion on demand.

As I said, federalizing our election system, those are just a few of the list of horribles that they put out there.

And they all campaigned on that.

But if we tried to do it now, all 47 of them, I can guarantee you would block vote against it.

So it's situational for them.

It's all about political power.

And now that they are on the outside, they're gonna use this to their advantage.

I just think that we ought to be able to do this the old-fashioned way, and that is open up the government by just having five more Democrats vote with us.

And that's all it's going to take.

So we shouldn't be in this.

Everything is harder than it should be right now because of Trump derangement syndrome.

But I still think at some point there are going to be some rank-and-file Democrats who break with their leadership and do the right thing for the country, and that is open up the government.

Right.

We cleared the backlog.

The Democrats have completely shut it down.

I mean, we were we were forced to be here.

We've been here more days, more hours, cast more votes than any Senate in history, at least the last 40 years.

as a result of the Democrats' obstruction.

And so we did make a change in the rules that enables us to start processing some of the executive branch nominations in batches, and that's enabled us to catch up.

But there are more coming.