Sen. Raphael Warnock On Ending The Filibuster: ‘All Options Must Be On The Table’

With the signing on Thursday of President Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package, Democrats in Washington have now secured their first major achievement since winning control of the White House and both chambers of Congress.

It’s a victory that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer credited this week to the voters who sent Democrats to the Senate. Speaking to reporters after final passage of the bill in the House on Wednesday, the New York Democrat pointed to two senators in particular — Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock — whose surprise victories in Georgia’s runoff election in January helped give Democrats control of the Senate for the first time in six years.

“Mr. Ossoff and Mr. Warnock told the citizens of Georgia if they were elected, they would make sure that the actual promises made would be promises kept and they have been,” said Schumer.