Schumer now pleads for bi-partisanship having promised to railroad Democrat agenda through

With Republicans sweeping to a red trifecta successful past week’s elections, stunningly capturing the White House and majorities successful the House and Senate, Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is cutting a antithetic tone, compared to his pre-election hype wherever helium posited a Democrat triumph successful the Senate and past perchance getting escaped of the filibuster, among different extremist proposals. 

Ending the filibuster regularisation – which requires 60 votes to walk bills – would person made it easier for Democrats to supercharge their docket and fundamentally railroad immoderate Republican opposition. 

Schumer and the Democrats tried to kill the filibuster successful 2022 erstwhile they had 50 votes – the vice president could person breached the necktie – but Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema refused to toed the Democratic enactment line. They yet became Independents.

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Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., talks aft a argumentation luncheon connected Capitol Hill, Sept. 24, 2024, successful Washington.  (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

With Manchin and Sinema leaving the Senate, Schumer was assured of having astatine slightest 50 Senate seats aft this year’s predetermination with a then-potential Vice President Walz breaking the necktie connected a filibuster vote. 

"We got it up to 48, but, of course, Sinema and Manchin voted no; that’s wherefore we couldn’t alteration the rules. Well, they’re some gone," Schumer told reporters connected the Tuesday during the week of the Democratic convention, according to NBC News.

"Ruben Gallego is for it, and we person 51. So, adjacent losing Manchin, we inactive person 50."

The effect would person fundamentally meant one-party regularisation successful the Senate, with Schumer besides toying with expanding voting rights nationwide by passing the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. 

He besides discussed a imaginable regularisation alteration to codify termination rights successful national law, a enactment precedence aft Roe v. Wade was overturned, which would person faced staunch Republican absorption and lacking a way to 60 Senate votes.

Schumer besides posited reforming the Supreme Court by slapping 18-year word limits connected justices and touted reversing the Supreme Court’s statesmanlike immunity ruling, which determined that presidents are immune from prosecution for immoderate "official acts."

He has antecedently announced his volition to determination authorities that would grow the Supreme Court from 9 to 13 members.

But this week, helium went to the level of the Senate to archer Republicans to fundamentally spell casual connected their legislative colleagues connected the different broadside of the aisle, since Republicans volition person a 53-to-47 majority. 

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President-elect Trump astatine the Palm Beach Convention Center connected Nov. 6, 2024 successful West Palm Beach, Florida, having won the election. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

"To my Republican colleagues, I connection a connection of caution successful bully faith," Schumer said. 

"Take attraction not to misread the volition of the people, and bash not wantonness the request for bipartisanship. After winning an election, the temptation whitethorn beryllium to spell to the extreme. We’ve seen that hap implicit the decades, and it has consistently backfired connected the enactment successful power."

"So, alternatively of going to the extremes, I punctual my colleagues that this assemblage is astir effectual erstwhile it’s bipartisan. If we privation the adjacent 4 years successful the Senate to beryllium arsenic productive arsenic the past four, the lone mode that volition hap is done bipartisan cooperation."

Schumer’s astir look wasn’t mislaid connected Byron York, main governmental analogous for the Washington Examiner and a Fox News contributor.

 Schumer antecedently announced his volition to determination authorities that would grow the Supreme Court from 9 to 13 members. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

"The abbreviated mentation of that is: Please don’t bash to america what we were going to bash to you," York writes successful the Washington Examiner. 

"Schumer is evidently acrophobic that Republicans mightiness clasp a strategy to destruct the filibuster and walk each sorts of consequential authorities with nary Democratic input astatine all. That wouldn’t beryllium bipartisan!"

"Fortunately for Schumer, Republicans person been much principled than Democrats erstwhile it comes to the legislative filibuster, and to the filibuster successful general. Republicans recognize that adjacent though they volition person the bulk for the adjacent 2 years, they mightiness beryllium backmost successful the number astatine immoderate clip aft that. So Schumer volition not get it bully and hard the mode helium planned to springiness it to Republicans."

York writes that Schumer’s "brand of hypocrisy is peculiarly egregious" since helium was advocating changing Senate rules connected a partisan ground to destruct the number party’s quality to request a higher modular of support for arguable legislation, arsenic opposed to advocating to get a peculiar measure crossed the line. 

"He was. And then, erstwhile Schumer’s enactment loses, helium instantly turns astir and becomes Mr. Bipartisanship. For that, determination should beryllium a connection that goes beyond specified hypocrisy."

Senate Minority Whip John Thune, R-S.D., volition regenerate Schumer arsenic Majority Leader and is readying to marque ushering successful President-elect Trump's migration docket the archetypal point connected his to-do database erstwhile helium succeeds. He has not indicated that helium intended to ballot connected the filibuster rule.

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He said repairing the system is also adjacent the apical of his list. As important elements of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 passed by Trump are acceptable to expire successful 2025, Thune said Republicans volition instrumentality enactment done the fund reconciliation process to renew them.

The trifecta will make Trump's agenda easier to prosecute without absorption from a Democratic majority. Republicans held a governing trifecta from 2017 to 2019. The GOP achieved overmuch of their agenda, including sweeping taxation betterment and confirming justices to execute a blimpish bulk successful the Supreme Court.

But Thune said helium would support the filibuster rule, adjacent if it stands successful the mode of the Trump docket it hopes to advance.

Fox News’s Jamie Joseph, Julia Johnson and Tyler Olson contributed to this report.