A US Capitol Police officer stands guard in the empty hallway outside the darkened Senate Floor on Friday. Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

It was completely predictable that President Donald Trump would call on Senate Republicans to end the custom of the filibuster, which has bedeviled majority parties for years.

How are Democrats able to shut the government over their demands to re-up expiring enhanced Obamacare insurance subsidies ? The filibuster.

Why were Republicans able to block Democrats’ efforts to create a national voting standard when Joe Biden was president? The filibuster.

In fact, most major legislation that has passed in recent years — from the Affordable Care Act to Trump’s tax credits and Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act — has been crammed through using budget reconciliatio

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