Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin appeared to shift his opinion on eliminating the filibuster this week despite supporting the measure during Joe Biden’s presidency.
Trump had previously called for an end to the Senate custom, but on Wednesday, he gave his most forceful and detailed case against it. In a three-and-a-half-minute video posted to Truth Social, the president began by commending Sen. Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) for “doing a great job,” but called on Thune to eliminate the filibuster. To advance most legislation in the Senate, 60 votes are required to invoke cloture, which ends debate.
Raskin was asked by CNN’s Dana Bash about President Donald Trump’s recent comments regarding several Republican losses nationwide on Tuesday and the ongoing government shutdown.
“One of the things that he has been talking about for the last couple of days more intensely is getting rid of the filibuster. That’s actually something that you wanted to do when Joe Biden was president. Things weren’t getting through the Senate. So is that an area where you agree with him?” Bash asked.
“Look, we don’t need a procedural fix at this point,” Raskin answered. “We need the Republicans to recognize that there’s a healthcare crisis they’ve imposed on the country. Millions of people are facing the loss of their health insurance because of the skyrocketing premiums under Trump and the end of the ACA tax credits.”
He continued, “We need to restore those credits, and we need to restore millions of people to Medicaid that were thrown off when they passed a trillion-dollar cut to healthcare in America, while they gave a trillion-dollar tax break to the wealthiest people. That’s why we’re seeing a clean Democratic sweep across America.”
“So you wanted the filibuster to be ended when Biden was president, but now no?” Bash interrupted.
“You know, I’m not in the Senate, so I’ve got no say in that, right?” Raskin said.
Raskin had supported eliminating the filibuster in 2021 after Senate Republicans blocked the formation of an independent panel to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
“Using the filibuster to cover up the truth about Jan. 6 is a scandalous abuse of power that should bring the filibuster to an immediate and long-overdue end,” Raskin said to The Hill.
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“Millions of people are facing the loss of their health insurance because of the skyrocketing premiums under Trump and the end of the ACA tax credits.”
The Biden maladministration had FOUR years within which they could have worked to control the rising costs of health care, which are directly responsible for insurance companies raising premiums. The democrats deliberately wrote to terminate ACA tax credits at the end of 2025. Neither the Republicans nor President Trump are in any way responsible for that.
Raskin’s comments are the usual democrat “misinformation” fed to the MSM to misrepresent their responsibility for all of this …