US President Donald Trump on Friday once again reiterated his demand to terminate filibuster.

“Just say NO (Nuclear Option!). TERMINATE THE FILIBUSTER!,” said Trump in a post on Truth Social.

What is Filibuster?

Filibuster is a parliamentary tool that attempt to delay, halts action on most bills unless 60 senators in the 100-member chamber vote to move forward.

The earliest filibusters also led to the first demands what is now called ‘cloture', a method for ending debate and bringing a question to a vote.

In 1975 the Senate reduced the number of votes required for cloture from two-thirds of senators voting to three-fifths of all senators duly chosen and sworn, or 60 of the 100-member Senate.

The filibuster isn’t in the Constitution and it wasn’t part of the Founding Fathers’ vision f

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