How is the GOP supposed to get all this past the Senate’s filibuster, which requires 60 votes to end debate? There’s no good answer without changing the rules in some way to nuke the filibuster, which would be a grave mistake for Republicans. The 60-vote rule always frustrates the party in power, but it’s what stops a bare majority of Democrats from restructuring the Supreme Court and creating new states out of Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico.