LIKELIHOOD AND FEASIBILITY
Currently, most legislation requires 60 votes to end debate, and thus, to pass. The two main current exceptions are (1) judicial nominations and executive branch appointments, and (2) special spending rules (most notably budget reconciliation, which deal with spending, revenues, and the debt limit). The filibuster can be eliminated by either a two-thirds vote (improbable) or, potentially, by a majority vote (known as the nuclear option, which is how the changes to judicial nominations were made), which could happen as early as the adoption of new rules at the beginning of the next Senate session, after swearing in.
Those dedicated to operationalizing a second Trump term plans will focus first and foremost on drowning the “administrative state” wherever civil servants and institutional hurdles could slow down or jeopardize the implementation of their agenda. In most agencies, likely Trump administration officials list individual offices (e.g., the DOJ’s Office of Civil Rights) and whole agencies (e.g., The Department of Education and Department of the Interior) for elimination.
In the case of a GOP-controlled Congress, Congress would likely choose not to impeach President Trump for impeachable offenses committed while in office.
CONGRESSIONAL LEADERSHIP
OUSTED FROM CONGRESSIONAL LEADERSHIP
If you put yourself above the Constitution as he has done... I think that makes you unfit for office.
Paul Ryan
54th Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from Oct. 29, 2015 to Jan. 3, 2019
I know the nation can survive bad policy. We can't survive a president who is willing to torch the Constitution.
Liz Cheney
Chair of the House Republican Conference from Jan. 3, 2019 to May 12, 2021
The jury…did its American duty, and the Republicans got their marching orders, which is attack the system, attack the jury, attack American citizens, attack the judge…everything but attack Donald Trump.
Adam Kinzinger
Republican Congressman from Illinois, Jan. 3, 2011 to Jan. 3, 2023.