MONMOUTH NATIONAL: PUBLIC DIVIDED ON FILIBUSTER REFORM, BUT FEW WANT TO DUMP IT ENTIRELY
April 29, 2021, 1:53 pm | in
NATIONAL: PUBLIC DIVIDED ON FILIBUSTER REFORM,
BUT FEW WANT TO DUMP IT ENTIRELY
West Long Branch, NJ – Americans are evenly divided between those who approve of the filibuster, those who disapprove of it, and those who have no opinion. The
Monmouth (“
Mon-muth
”) University Poll also finds that nearly 4 in 10 favor reforming how the U.S. Senate uses the filibuster while about 2 in 10 want to eliminate it altogether. Public opinion is also divided on whether specific types of legislation should be subject to a filibuster, including spending and tax bills – a category that includes two major packages recently proposed by the Biden administration. Also, nearly half of the public would leave in place the 60-vote cloture threshold to stop a filibuster. Few Americans, though, say they are very familiar with how the filibuster works and a small but measurable number offer seemingly contradictory responses to certain questions about reform.