Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s position against eliminating the Senate filibuster has not changed, a spokesperson told ABC News Friday, after Trump on Thursday called on Republicans to go "nuclear" and eliminate the filibuster to pass the Republican funding bill and reopen the government.

President Donald Trump is calling on the Senate to scrap the filibuster. That's so the Republican majority can bypass Democrats in the Senate and reopen the federal government.

"It is now time for the Republicans to play their ‘TRUMP CARD,’ and go for what is called the Nuclear Option—Get rid of the Filibuster, and get rid of it, NOW," Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social on Thursday.

Senate Democrats who had pushed vociferously for the filibuster’s elimination just four years ago are using it to try to force a Republican compromise on President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill”

Judges order SNAP food benefits to continue. A federal judge in Rhode Island said he would order the Trump administration to continue providing SNAP food benefits despite the gove

The president says his lawyers are asking the courts for legal direction, insisting that ending the shutdown would be the best solution.