Chuck Schumer rejects Mitch McConnell's Senate filibuster demand
On Friday, Majority Leader Schumer turned down a request by Minority Leader McConnell to include a protection for the filibuster in a Senate power-sharing agreement, calling the request βunacceptable.β Schumer added that he wants the same agreement that was established for the last 50-50 Senate in 2001, and called McConnell's request an "extraneous demand." The minority leader noted that he refused former president Trump's demand to end the filibuster in 2017 and that Democrats have used it many times themselves.