Schumer won’t commit to keeping filibuster

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Thursday refused to commit to keeping the filibuster should Democrats claw back a majority in the 2020 elections.

“Our focus should be on winning the majority, and we’ll have a nice caucus of more than 50 Democrats and we will decide what to do,” the New York Democrat told reporters during a Capitol Hill briefing.

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