This is the Wilmington Standard Daily Update for Wednesday November 6, 2025.

It is time to end the filibuster in the Senate.

Giddy from the results of Tuesday in election areas that were going to go blue anyway, Democrats think they have been given a powerful mandate to continue hold out against the Republicans in day 37 of this shutdown.

Their main tool to do that is the filibuster in the Senate which requires 60 votes to close debate on a topic and move to voting on the bill in question.   Indeed, Republicans should be happy we had it in place during the Harris-Biden administration, as it stopped liberal madness from making it all the way through Congress. 

But like everything else the Democrats touch, they have perverted it to create chaos and prevent bills from going forward.  What was intended to be a process to ensure good governance has been turned into a political tool for endless delay and caterwauling.

It is time to end it.

But, knowing Democrats may take the majority at some future time, Republicans need to end the filibuster by going big or going home.  Not only do they need to reopen the government, they need to pass important bills that will transform our country for generations to come.  Bills such as

• mandating IDs for voter registrations and other election reforms
• funding and tax bills – including reforming our entire tax process
• codifying social policies like preventing men from changing in girl’s bathrooms and other insanity
• finally codifying immigration laws – including tackling DACA
• and enacting other common sense policies that most Americans would support.

Republicans need to shift into high gear and get these things done.  It would transform our country and demonstrate to every American just how beneficial Republican policies are. 

But they have to do it now – and make it count.

For the Wilmington Standard, I’m Reuel Sample.  Thanks for listening.