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{"id":26538,"date":"2026-07-27T17:17:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T17:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/fetterman-says-democrats-were-horribly-wrong-to-try-eliminating-senate-filibuster\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T17:17:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T17:17:52","slug":"fetterman-says-democrats-were-horribly-wrong-to-try-eliminating-senate-filibuster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/fetterman-says-democrats-were-horribly-wrong-to-try-eliminating-senate-filibuster\/","title":{"rendered":"Fetterman says Democrats were \u2018horribly wrong\u2019 to try eliminating Senate filibuster"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) is backpedaling on his previous calls to eliminate the filibuster in the Senate \u2014 which is a critical bulwark against \u201ca fill-in-the-blank government with new laws, deregulation or procedures of its choosing,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2026\/07\/27\/john-fetterman-why-i-changed-my-mind-about-filibuster\/\" target=\"_blank\">wrote in a Washington Post op-ed published Monday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA Senate without the filibuster [would become] a Senate that ignored the voices of the minority and everyday people,\u201d he wrote, elaborating on previous comments. Last month, he told Katie Miller that Democrats were \u201cso wrong\u201d about opposing the filibuster.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot become a smaller version of the House of Representatives,\u201d he wrote in his op-ed.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, Fetterman campaigned to abolish the filibuster, a 60-vote rule that effectively requires a supermajority to pass most legislation. His argument on the trail \u2014 which remains on his campaign website as of Monday afternoon \u2014 was that the rule stood <a href=\"https:\/\/johnfetterman.com\/issue\/safeguarding-our-democracy\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cin the way of getting things done for Pennsylvanians.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At that time, many Senate Democrats and activists <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/10\/07\/voting-rights-advocates-senate-filibuster-515630\" target=\"_blank\">argued the same publicly<\/a>, as the party attempted to pass a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/03\/23\/voting-rights-senate-477681\" target=\"_blank\">sweeping overhaul of elections<\/a> that Democrats said would better protect voting rights. But two then-Democratic senators, Joe Manchin (W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (Ariz.) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/01\/07\/clinton-oprah-democrats-manchin-filibuster-526691\" target=\"_blank\">protested against throwing out the rule<\/a>, saying it would hurt the party\u2019s priorities in the long run.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately the filibuster survived and Democrats did not pass their voting rights bill, with much of the party base heaping scorn on Manchin and Sinema.<\/p>\n<p>Now, with Republicans holding a government trifecta, the power dynamic has flipped.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump is now urging Republican senators to kill the filibuster, which has stalled passage of the SAVE America Act. He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/07\/27\/congress\/trump-thune-senate-recess-01012561\" target=\"_blank\">turned the screws on Majority Leader John Thune<\/a> on Monday, demanding that Thune keep the Senate in session until the GOP-backed elections bill passes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJohn Thune should not allow the United States Senate to \u2018leave town\u2019 until it passes The Save America Act or, far better still, TERMINATES THE FILIBUSTER, where Republicans can then quickly pass everything they ever dreamed of,\u201d Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116992066632190700\" target=\"_blank\">wrote in a Truth Social post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The filibuster has been a block against GOP-championed causes, Fetterman argued: \u201cWe could have extreme policies such as nationwide abortion restrictions, backpedaling on LGBT rights, repeal of birthright citizenship and limited voting rights across the country. \u2026 Republicans could fundamentally change the entire government and country with a simple majority vote.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With the midterms approaching, Democrats face a tight battle to win back the Senate. The next time they have a trifecta, the filibuster will \u2014 once again \u2014 be a thorn in the party\u2019s side, complicating the passage of key priorities.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats \u201cwill once again have to find common ground with our Republican colleagues,&#8221; Fetterman said. \u201cWe will need to abandon our worst impulses as a party and work together to find solutions to the problems Americans face.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) is backpedaling on his previous calls to eliminate the filibuster in the Senate \u2014 which is a critical bulwark against \u201ca fill-in-the-blank government with new laws, deregulation or procedures of its choosing,\u201d he wrote in a Washington Post op-ed published Monday. \u201cA Senate without the filibuster [would become] a Senate that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}