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

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

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 ...

Republicans also enjoyed complete control for two years in 2016-17, and not once did Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) threaten to overturn the legislative filibuster, even though it stood in the way of ...