Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell won a big victory Monday, as Senate Democrats Joe Manchin and Krysten Sinema sided with him in preserving the filibuster. The filibuster is a Senate rule that bills must pass a 60 vote barrier to be considered by the full Senate.

With that knowledge of the two Democrat defections, McConnell dropped his official opposition to the last obstacle to a 50-50 power sharing agreement in the Senate.

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FNC: “Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Monday set aside his demand that a provision preserving the legislative filibuster be included in his power-sharing agreement with Majority Leader Chuck Schumer — paving the way for the upper chamber to officially form committees and start tackling major legislative issues on the Biden agenda. McConnell, R-Ky., decided to relent Monday, he said, after two moderate Democrats doubled-down on their previous stances in support of the legislative filibuster. This almost certainly means that Democrats, many of whom have said they want to get rid of the filibuster, won’t be able to do so for at least the next two years.”

“I’ve been very clear with you guys,” Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., said Monday. “We’ve got to come together, so I do not support doing away with the filibuster under any condition. It’s not who I am.”

“Today two Democratic Senators publicly confirmed they will not vote to end the legislative filibuster,” McConnell said Monday. “They agree with President Biden’s and my view that no Senate majority should destroy the right of future minorities of both parties to help shape legislation…The legislative filibuster was a key part of the foundation beneath the Senate’s last 50-50 power-sharing agreement in 2001. With these assurances, I look forward to moving ahead with a power-sharing agreement modeled on that precedent.”

While Chuck Schumer folded on the issue, not all Democrats have agreed with a continuation of the filibuster. This one loses again.

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“The filibuster is giving a veto to the gun industry, a veto to the oil industry, a veto on immigration,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said during her presidential campaign. “If we want to make progress, it’s time to end the filibuster.”

The filibuster is giving a veto to the gun industry, a veto to the oil industry, a veto on immigration.

If we want to make progress, it's time to end the filibuster. #DemDebate pic.twitter.com/kHTsnjfcT8

— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) February 26, 2020