Tammy Baldwin: “Republican colleagues have proposed nuking the filibuster.”

“He's, you know, caught in the hallway, as reporters like to do, asked him about the filibuster, and he said that he's in favor of the Republicans nuking the filibuster in order to reopen the government. Republican colleagues have proposed nuking the filibuster. To force the government to reopen. Open. What do you. Yeah, of course. Of course. Carve it out for that. Absolutely. We ran on that. We ran on killing the filibuster.” (04:51–04:55)

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