Experts told Newsweek that the party's attempt to fast-track Trump's budget could hold long-term consequences for Senate ...

McConnell voiced his concern on the heels of Republican Senator Thom Tillis announcing he will not see re-election.

Former Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) on Monday called Sen. Thom Tillis’s (R-N.C.) surprise announcement that ...

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) on Thursday warned that if Democrats follow through on Vice President Harris’s pledge to eliminate the filibuster to codify abortion protections ...

New Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), above, is locked in a battle with Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) over the future of the Senate filibuster.

McConnell is stepping down as leader, but his comments Wednesday signaled Senate Republicans will likely defend the filibuster even if Trump again pushes for reform when he takes office next year.

“The filibuster will stand,” Mitch McConnell said. For Democrats, is that good news or bad news? The answer might not be immediately obvious.

Monkey Cage Mitch McConnell is wrong. Here’s the filibuster’s ‘racial history.’ From defending slavery to protecting segregation, the filibuster has been heavily used to block civil rights ...

When McConnell’s spinners claim that he wants to keep the filibuster to facilitate bipartisanship and moderation, it’s knee-slappingly laughable. McConnell himself has shown us otherwise.

When I interviewed to work for then-Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in 2021, he told me that we’d have one focus: protecting the filibuster. Thanks to a combination of McConnell’s shrewd ...

Ahead of the elections, a variety of Democratic candidates and leaders, including Kamala Harris, were fully on board with overhauling the Senate’s filibuster rule. Those efforts, as the Senate ...