GOP Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell proposed a bill that would allow the president to raise the debt ceiling on his own with congress oversight. Apparently his hope was that Democrats would be so opposed to allowing the president to have such authority that they would vote down the bill themselves. Instead the Democrats called his bluff and took him up on the offer. He ended up having to filibuster his own bill to prevent it from passing.
Case for filibuster reform if anything right there. You know things are getting ridiculous when Senators are filibustering their own bills lol
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