Trump Again Calls for Senate to Change Rules to '51 Vote Majority'

President Donald Trump on Friday again appealed to the Senate to "immediately" change its rules to a "51 vote majority" after Republicans failed to pass a skinny repeal to Obamacare early Friday.

If Republicans are going to pass great future legislation in the Senate, they must immediately go to a 51 vote majority, not senseless 60...

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 28, 2017

...Even though parts of healthcare could pass at 51, some really good things need 60. So many great future bills & budgets need 60 votes....

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 28, 2017

It's at least the third time Trump has urged the Senate to make the radical change, as it did to break the filibuster to get Neil Gorsuch confirmed to the Supreme Court. But Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is just not going to do it for legislative matters.

"The core of the Senate is the legislative filibuster," McConnell told USA Today in April.

"This notion that this (changing the filibuster rule to confirm Gorsuch) somehow bleeds over into the legislative filibuster is untrue. I'm opposed to it . . . I think that's what fundamentally changes the Senate."

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