“We will suspend the filibuster. We have the votes for that on Roe v. Wade,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said on ABC’s “The View.”
She said if Democrats control the White House and both chambers of Congress in 2025, “the first vote Democrats will take in the Senate, the first substantive vote, will be to make Roe v. Wade law of the land again in America.”
Warren has spoken repeatedly about the need to end the filibuster to overcome the conservative majority Supreme Court and protect not only abortion, but same-sex marriage, contraception and other rights.
Ending the filibuster would eliminate the 60-vote threshold and allow a Democratic majority in the Senate to more easily push legislation through to President Biden’s desk.
While Democrats currently narrowly control the Senate, they don’t have enough support for such a move, because of opposition from members including Sens. Joe Manchin (I-W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.). Neither is running for reelection, but Democrats face an uphill battle winning enough seats to keep the majority.
“We can make Roe v. Wade law of the land if we have, and I have to be clear, we’ve got to have a majority in the House — skinny majority. We can take a really skinny majority in the Senate, I’ll take fifty. And a Democrat in the White House. We have those three things we will suspend the filibuster,” Warren said.
Biden pledged to make Roe v. Wade the “law of the land” during his State of the Union address in March, but is also battling against calls from several dozen Democrats for him to step aside in the 2024 race.
