Bessent sides with Trump on scrapping filibuster: 'It's time'

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called for the elimination of the filibuster on Sunday, urging Senate Republicans to terminate it “immediately” if the government shuts down again in late January, when the recently passed spending bill is set to expire.

Bessent called the 60-vote threshold mechanism a “procedural fossil” that has held the country “hostage,” most recently in the 43-day government shutdown, the longest in U.S. history.