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“It’s going to depend on how obstreperous they become,” the former vice president said of Senate Republicans who might filibuster legislation championed by a potential Biden administration. \u201cBut I think you\u2019re going to just have to take a look at it.”<\/p>\n

As recently as February 2020, Biden opposed ending the filibuster<\/a>. The openness to change from Biden comes as he has clinched the Democratic nomination and is attempting to appeal to skeptical left-wing voters.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do think we\u2019ve reached a point, a real inflection in American history. And I don\u2019t believe it\u2019s unlike what Roosevelt was met with,\u201d Biden told reporters on Monday. \u201cI think we have an opportunity to make some really systemic change.\u201d<\/p>\n

The filibuster refers to efforts from senators to block legislation and obstruct a vote from taking place by engaging in endless debate. Under current Senate rules, 60 votes are needed to invoke cloture, ending debate and sending the proposed legislation to a vote. <\/p>\n

Southern segregationist senators used the filibuster to attempt to block multiple civil rights laws<\/a> in the 1950s and 1960s, and Democrats decried Senate Republicans<\/a> for filibustering during former President Barack Obama\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n

Biden\u2019s comments come amid a shift in messaging from traditionally centrist Democrats, who now are no longer ruling out aggressive action to pass legislation. Most prominently, Biden ally Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) told POLITICO in June that he would not rule out banning the filibuster<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will not stand idly by for four years and watch the Biden administration’s initiatives blocked at every turn,\u201d Coons said. \u201cI am gonna try really hard to find a path forward that doesn’t require removing what’s left of the structural guardrails, but if there’s a Biden administration, it will be inheriting a mess, at home and abroad. It requires urgent and effective action.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2017, Coons spearheaded a letter to support the filibuster<\/a> and block measures from fellow Democrats to eliminate it.<\/p>\n

Biden may have an unlikely ally in his quest to end the filibuster: the man he is trying to beat in November. In September 2017, President Donald Trump tweeted his approval for ending the fillibuster<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith the ridiculous Filibuster Rule in the Senate, Republicans need 60 votes to pass legislation, rather than 51,\u201d Trump wrote. \u201cCan’t get votes, END NOW!\u201d<\/p>\n

But despite the president’s calls for an end to the filibuster, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has refused to do away with teh 60-vote threshold<\/a> for legislation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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“It’s going to depend on how obstreperous they become,” the former vice president said of Senate Republicans who might filibuster legislation championed by a potential Biden administration. \u201cBut I think you\u2019re going to just have to take a look at it.” As recently as February 2020, Biden opposed ending the filibuster. 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