Senate Republican leadership is not budging against pressure to use a so-called talking filibuster to pass the party’s voter identification legislation, despite President Donald Trump’s adding weight to that dogpile this week.
“We don’t have the votes either to proceed to get on a talking filibuster, nor to sustain one if we got on it,” said Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., on Tuesday afternoon. “But that’s just a function of math and there isn’t anything I can do about that.”
However, Thune is planning to hold some type of vote on the legislation as soon as next week, though the details aren’t yet clear.
