Congressional Democrats are also attempting to get rid of the filibuster. According to member of the UW Young Democratic Socialists of America Andrew Horvat, the filibuster must go. “We support abolishing the filibuster as it is one of many barriers to real democracy and allows small groups of legislators to block legislation,” Horvat said. According to the Washington Post, the efforts of Democrats to ‘abolish the filibuster’ were set back only thanks to the opposition from Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona. The filibuster allows a minority of Senators to block pieces of legislation. Democrats claim Republicans abused the power of the filibuster to block important pieces of legislation, according to The Guardian.