Collectively, the Democrat Party is widely in favor of ending the Senate filibuster once and for all. Despite Democrats having narrow majority control in both the Senate and the House, there are still certain bills that they cannot pass on party vote alone.
This, to many of the Democrats, is very frustrating. High-profile Democrats from Rep. Ilhan Omar to Sen. Elizabeth Warren maintain that Democrats have no choice but to eliminate the filibuster.
When Republicans controlled Congress, Democrats happily employed the Senate filibuster. However, since the Senate filibuster is no longer politically beneficial to Democrats, the party has deemed the filibuster as racist and reminiscent of the Jim Crow era.
However, despite the noise and double standards, a minority of Democrats in the Senate are resisting in-party pressure to kill the filibuster.
Moderate Democrats on the Senate filibuster
Thus far, Democrat Sens. Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin have made clear that they will not back the rest of their party’s push to kill the filibuster. With the tight 50/50 partisan split in the Senate, anti-filibuster Democrats don’t have the votes to get what they want.
