"As Republicans and Democrats battle for the upper hand in the federal government shutdown, President Donald Trump has zeroed in on a new target for potentially breaking the deadlock: eliminating the Senate filibuster. In two Truth Social posts, Trump urged senators to end the chamber's longstanding practice of requiring 60 votes to proceed to final consideration of legislation. The 60-vote threshold means that Republicans cannot simply rely on their own senators to pass legislation to fund the government;"
"Terminate the filibuster, not just for the shutdown, but for everything else, Trump wrote on November 2 on Truth Social. He said Democrats would end the filibuster immediately, as soon as they get the chance. Our doing it will not give them the chance. In parliamentary lingo, the process of using a simple majority vote to eliminate the filibuster has been called the nuclear option. A president pushing to nuke the filibuster can make a difference, said Arizona State University political scientist Steven Smith."
President Donald Trump called for ending the Senate filibuster to allow Republicans to pass government funding with a simple majority, posting on Truth Social that the filibuster should be terminated for the shutdown and beyond. The Senate's 60-vote threshold forces Republicans to win bipartisan support to fund the government, and Democrats have withheld support while leveraging the filibuster to demand extensions of expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies. The parliamentary maneuver to abolish the filibuster by majority vote is known as the nuclear option. Political scientists note presidents have influenced filibuster rules before, but Senate Republican leaders, including Majority Leader John Thune, oppose eliminating the filibuster.
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