Statement·policy plan·said 2024-11-12
“I am not championing getting rid of the filibuster now that Republicans have the trifecta; had we had the trifecta, I would have been.”
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Mixedby Seattle Times
2024-11-13Reasoning
Seattle Times documented Jayapal's reversal: she co-led a 2021 letter calling the filibuster "a procedural tool that can be abolished" standing in the way of justice, but in November 2024 said she would not champion ending it under a Republican trifecta — a position reversal contingent on partisan control.
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