Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) was taken aback Thursday after being confronted about his flip-flopping on the Senate filibuster.
Scott defended the filibuster when Republicans were in the minority of the Senate, but now that his party has the majority, he’s echoing President Donald Trump’s calls to abolish it.
“The filibuster was used to say, we’re going to have a conversation, and then at some point, once we’re done, we vote. I’m fine with that. But we don’t make people talk. So if we’re not going to make people talk, let’s get rid of it,” Scott told CNN host Kaitlan Collins.
A number of Republicans have called for eliminating the filibuster, a longstanding procedure in the Senate to delay or block a vote on a bill, so that they can more easily pass GOP legislation, notably Trump’s SAVE America Act.
Trump has pushed Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) to end the Senate procedure.
