Trump, Senate and filibuster
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It was completely predictable that President Donald Trump would call on Senate Republicans to end the custom of the filibuster, which has bedeviled majority parties for years.
1don MSN
Republican leaders reject Trump’s demands to scrap the Senate filibuster to end the shutdown
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.
In a pair of late-night posts, Trump told Senate Republicans to use the "nuclear option" to eliminate the 60-vote threshold and pass a government funding bill without Democrats.
The top two Republicans in Congress are showing no interest in taking the unprecedented step of ending the legislative filibuster, just hours after President Donald Trump made a fresh demand for the Senate to do so to end the government shutdown.
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”
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Trump Pushes to Scrap the Filibuster to End the Shutdown. Here’s What Republicans Have Said About It
President Trump is calling for Republicans to get rid of it to end the shutdown. Many in his party are pushing back.
President Donald Trump’s MAGA supporters appeared split after he called on the Senate to scrap the filibuster to clear the way for the end of the federal government shutdown. "THE CHOICE IS CLEAR—INITIATE THE ‘NUCLEAR OPTION,’ GET RID OF THE FILIBUSTER," Trump wrote on his Truth Social site on Thursday.
President Trump's call to terminate the filibuster could alter the ways the Senate and congressional dealmaking operate.
The Senate majority leader is unwilling to pursue the “nuclear option” to blow past a Democratic filibuster and reopen the government.
The filibuster—a procedural move allowing senators to extend debates on bills indefinitely without a 60-vote majority—has long been viewed as a move to encourage bipartisanship in Congress and as a bulwark against political dominance by slim majorities in the upper chamber.
Trump wants the Senate to abolish the filibuster blocking legislation such as ending the shutdown. Here's why even his Republican allies keep it.
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