On Wednesday's episode of WVNN's "The Yaffee Program," U.S. Rep. Barry Moore (R-Enterprise) discussed the ongoing government shutdown and the urgent need to eliminate the filibuster.
According to Moore, Democrats will immediately eliminate the filibuster after retaking the U.S. Senate.
"The two Democratic senators who held it up were [Joe] Manchin and [Kyrsten] Sinema. They're gone," Moore said. "And so the next time, within the first hour, if the Senate turns Democrat, when, and if it ever does, they will nuke it. They want to drive this Marxist agenda across the finish line. So we have 36 months with President Trump in office. We need to nuke the filibuster. "
The congressman believes liberals in the U.S. Senate "caved" on the shutdown because Republicans increasingly threatened to eliminate the filibuster.
"I said this a couple of weeks ago, and honestly, I think part of us talking about nuking, it was the reason that Schumer had to go ahead and cave when he did, because we would have gotten all the credit," Moore argued. "We've been able to push the President's agenda, but Schumer, because of the filibuster, has been able to hold everything we're trying to do for the President. Barack Obama, by his term in September, had nearly 300 nominees approved. Trump had zero in September.
The congressman called Democratic legislators "obstructionists" for consistently blocking Trump's agenda.
"If we want to secure these elections by the midterms we need to go ahead and stand on the gas for a long time," Moore argued. "Democrats are going to do it, and seeing that this is an opportunity, with three years of President Trump's administration, to get many of his executive orders codified. But not only that, to get this country back to the American people."
"If we want to push President Trump's agenda we can't allow Schumer and five or six Democrats to hold up the whole government so they can resist President Trump's America First agenda," Moore added.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a funding bill Wednesday night allowing the federal government to reopen after over 40 days of closure. The legislation now heads to President Trump's desk.
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