Senators discuss nuking filibuster to fund DHS, pass voter ID bill

Senate Republicans appear to be warming to an extreme measure to overcome Democrat obstruction—the “nuclear option” of overriding the 60-vote threshold required to bring a bill to a final vote.

“My fellow conservatives and I have proudly used the 60-vote threshold to protect the country from all sorts of bad ideas and dangerous policies,” Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, wrote in an opinion article for The New York Post published Wednesday.

“But when the reality on the ground changes,...