The filibuster is expected to go through the night, against fast-tracked nominees by the Trump Administration. Booker’s protest appears to be in response to a recent wave of Republican nominees being fast-tracked through the confirmation process, many of whom are aligned with Trump’s second-term agenda and Elon Musk’s increasingly influential role in federal advisory circles.

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      2 days ago

      No problem! I keep seeing comments that the Democrats just hold signs, which tells me no one watches C-SPAN anymore. Lol

      They voted and spoke out against every last cabinet nominee, forced a 15-day vote against Trump’s emergency executive order, confirm Biden’s pending judge appointments when Johnson and Cruz are absent, and are bringing most of the cases to the courts to challenge Trump.

      As a whole, they’re doing everything they can from the minority. We will still need to primary out the deadwood centrists in favor of progressives that will actually drive change once in power, otherwise we’ll just set up another stagnant term.