On Tuesday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “On Balance,” Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) stated that while abolishing the filibuster isn’t on the table for Republicans, they are discussing “a nuclear option that goes into effect when we go into a shutdown that would be very limited to what it could do, that it would fund all essential employees, that it would fund the military, and it would fund essential programs with a CR” and floated his own idea of a nuclear option that would have automatic tax cuts.

Mullin said axing the filibuster is “not really on the table. … It may be forced upon us. But the biggest concern that we have is the Senate goes back and forth. And when the filibuster was in place, … it kept judges off the bench, it kept Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) from packing the Supreme Court

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