Nov. 1, 2025, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government Executive Director Robert Romano today issued the following statement responding to President Donald Trump’s Oct. 30 call on Truth Social to end the Senate filibuster:
“Democrats want Senate Republicans to end the filibuster. That’s why they keep saying Republicans have the votes to pass the continuing resolution. As usual, the question Republicans have to ask themselves is if they are okay with Democrats governing in the same way when they ultimately come back to power, weighing the fact that they already tried to do this in 2022 and failed. Democrats always win the trifecta of the House, Senate and White House when they win the Presidency for the past century. They’ll try again if not after 2028 then after 2032. It’s going to happen and when it does the party looks like it will be even more radical than it is today.
“The key filibuster question for the President and Republicans is whether they are fully prepared to implement an agenda that preemptively offsets what Democrats would do without the filibuster? Make more states? Pack the Supreme Court? If Trump lacks the votes in the Senate to do those things specifically, then there will be no offset for when the Democrats come back to power, pack the House with illegal aliens in the Census and with mass amnesty, pack the Senate with more blue states like D.C. and Puerto Rico and pack the Supreme Court. Medicare for all? You name it, they’ll do it. Is it worth the cost?
“Another factor to consider are the 2026 Congressional midterms. Senate races will matter a whole lot more without the filibuster. Maybe that can be beneficial in boosting turnout, but the President should be careful what he wishes for. Could abolishing the filibuster galvanize the opposition? Or would the public just shrug?
“The President must also be able to count to 50 in the Senate. If he truly has the votes to abolish the filibuster on legislation, then the American people expect there to be substantial reforms. There’s no turning back. Can he get voter identification with a citizenship requirement in every federal election? Or expand presidential tariff authorities to make the Supreme Court case moot? Restructure Social Security to get a better return on investment? Offer big baby bucks (needs to compete with long term benefits of college degrees so do the math) to end the fertility collapse once and for all? Spend money to reindustrialize America rapidly and modernize the military? Reform the federal civil service and bureaucracy? Intel reform? Dismantle weaponization? End DEI and ESG? If we’re breaking the filibuster, it better be for something more important than a clean continuing resolution, because when the other side gets back into power, they will do the same thing.
“The only reason to do a clean continuing resolution is to preserve bipartisan oversight of Congressional appropriations and to allow time for appropriators to work. If the parties want to continue to govern in a bipartisan way, then keep the Senate filibuster and reopen the government. If not, the sky’s the limit — and that’s the problem. That goes for both sides. This is irreversible. It’s like Daffy Duck eating the gunpowder and swallowing the match. You can only do it once.”
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