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Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump - Video: Mike Lee: Senate Democrats are using unprecedented obstruction and use of the zombie filibuster in order to get their priorities. It's working well for them.
They got all the departments and agencies in the federal government funded that they like, but then somehow they refuse utterly to cooperate on any spending bill that would fund the Department of Homeland Security.
So we're having to reinvent the wheel, go through a very elaborate process just to fund this one department whose success is material, indispensable to our national security and to President Trump's agenda.
We're having to go through this process that actually takes weeks to complete just so we can pass it with a simple majority of votes.
Here is the problem.
All this is a symptom of our refusal to enforce the talking filibuster.
If we were to enforce the talking filibuster, we could exhaust them and get to the point where they either provide us with the 60 votes we need or they get lazy, they get sloppy, they exhaust themselves.
And eventually we find a way to get it passed for willing to do that. Great. It's probably the way we ought to do it.
It protects debate to use the talking filibuster.
But if we're not willing to use the talking filibuster, it's time to nuke it. Why?
Look, this zombie filibuster thing that we're using, which is sort of the opposite of what the filibuster is supposed to do and supposed to be.
Not only is there obstruction with it unprecedented of late and causing all sorts of problems, but it's inuring disproportionately to the benefit of the Democrats.
Not something we want to be doing in these rare and often fleeting moments when we've got Republican control of the Senate, of the House, and of the White House.
So let's either enforce the talking filibuster or nuke the zombie filibuster. You can't have it both ways. Let's get this done.
We will continue running around this like just on a hamster wheel until we fix the problem.
I don't really care that much which. I'd rather enforce the talking filibuster, but if we're not willing to do the hard work of that, for the love of Pete, let's nuke it.