WASHINGTON—President Trump urged Senate Republicans to end the filibuster, the longstanding rule that requires 60 votes to advance most legislation, in order to reopen the government without the ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday urged congressional Republicans to unilaterally end the government shutdown by eliminating the Senate filibuster — urging them to take an unprecedented step that GOP ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: A version of this story was first published in 2021, when Democrats were trying to end the filibuster. It was completely predictable that President Donald Trump would call on Senate ...

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Senate Majority Leader John Thune already had the toughest job in Washington—navigating the 52 independent agendas of the senators in his conference while trying to protect both his party's majority ...

Senate Republicans have largely backed President Donald Trump’s agenda since he returned to office — but many refuse to support his campaign to scrap the filibuster. Trump asked Republican senators at ...

Sen. John Fetterman now says Democrats were “horribly wrong” to push for ending the Senate filibuster, reversing a 2022 ...

Senate Democrats are filibustering a Republican measure to reopen the federal government. As the shutdown approached and reached record length, Donald Trump grew impatient at the stalemate and ...

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