The 60-vote threshold in the Senate needs to get nuked, Sen. Ted Cruz told the Washington Examiner in an hour-long interview in his office Jan. 23.

Cruz contended that Democrats were going to abolish the filibuster anyway, and so Republicans ought to beat them to the punch. Absent that step, Cruz argued that Republicans can use reconciliation to repeal and replace both Obamacare and the Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill. He even has a plan for a regulatory reform with only 50 Senate votes.