• silence7@slrpnk.netOP
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      Definitely, but Schumer pushed enough Democrats to side with the Republicans on a vote to end debate that they had the 60-vote supermajority needed to do so.

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        It would have bought attention and time, maybe.

        With Schumer effectively sabotaging any kind of internal resistance within the party though…