Pelosi confirms Schumer promised to change Senate’s filibuster rule if Democrats win in November

Nancy Pelosi says in a new interview that her party will take on the Senate’s filibuster rule in some fashion if a Democratic majority returns to the chamber next year.

The California representative and Speaker Emerita spoke to Rolling Stone for a new interview in which she said that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, who is expected to continue leading the Democratic Senate caucus come 2025, vowed to her that he would get his party’s landmark piece of voting rights legislation — the For The People Act — past the Senate’s 60-vote filibuster threshold if Democrats win a majority in the chamber this November.

“We have to win the Senate. [Schumer] told me that if they win, they will change the Senate in terms of the filibuster, and we would pass [the] For The People Act, which makes all the difference in the world in terms of our democracy,” the former House speaker said.

Technically, her party already has that majority. But two members of the Senate Democratic caucus, Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin, have voiced opposition to changing or removing the filibuster standard and have prevented their party from doing so under nearly four years of Joe Biden’s presidency, stymieing some of the president’s main policy goals.

Both Sinema and Manchin are set to leave the chamber at the end of the year, however. Both are departing the Senate rather than fight out tough battles for re-election.

Sinema in particular was set to run as an independent after she left the Democratic Party, before it became clear she was in line to face a serious primary opponent. She then dropped out of the race entirely when polling indicated she was firmly in third place behind both her Democratic and Republican challengers.

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