OPINION
Majority Rule Built This Republic—The Filibuster Is Unraveling It
Congressman Andy Biggs| Dec 13, 2025
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President Trump was given a mandate in the 2024 presidential election based on his bold, America First Agenda (AFA) and a widespread rejection of the Biden Administration's hard-left policies. America's majoritarian form of government, a constitutional republic, has been dammed by Senate tradition and rules.
Much of the AFA has made it through the House but has been halted in the Senate. America's very notion of governance has always been that the majority is to lead. By requiring 60 votes, a supermajority of senators, to move a piece of legislation, the Senate has scuttled America's will, its electoral outcomes.
This is all too familiar to me, as I was elected in 2016 and came to office in January 2017 just like President Trump. By the end of August of that year, I knew that President Trump's agenda was being submarined by his supposed allies in the U.S. House and Senate. I wrote in The Wall Street Journal that year:
"The greatest obstacle blocking Republicans from fulfilling our agenda is not manufactured outrage about Russians. It's the Senate filibuster, the 60-vote threshold to suspend debate that prevents most bills from making it to the floor…President Trump has now joined the chorus of filibuster critics as he watches his agenda languish. Republicans should consign the 60-vote rule to history—or risk throwing away their agenda along with their congressional majority."
We are seeing a replay of 2017, which unfortunately, may lead to a replay of 2018. That will be devastating to the America First Agenda and President Trump's policy ambitions.
As in 2017, like me, the president has grown frustrated watching the inertia in the Senate. And, as in 2017, the Senate's stasis has led to the president's calls to end the filibuster. He wants the Senate to become what it was for the first 125 years of this nation.
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President Trump, like so many of us, understands that our window of opportunity is very narrow. We must enact as much of the agenda as possible. Failure to do so will result in us losing the House in the midterms.
I urge my Senate colleagues to prudently return America to the majority rule and eliminate the Cloture Rule. To do so will allow us to spend the next year passing the agenda that we, and President Trump, were elected to enact. Failure to do so will not only thwart the execution of the agenda now, but it could lead to disastrous electoral consequences.
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