U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent encouraged Republicans to eliminate the filibuster in a Washington Post op-ed on Sunday. "For generations, the filibuster has been romanticized as the Senate's ...

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 ...

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 ...

As the government shutdown nears its 40 th day, Republican senators are balking at President Donald Trump’s demand to end the filibuster, a rule change that would allow a simple Senate majority vote ...

President Donald Trump and Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent urged an end to the Senate filibuster rule ahead of an anticipated ...

Trump said the long-standing rule should be killed to end the shutdown. As the government shutdown nears becoming the longest in U.S. history, President Donald Trump has called on Senate Republicans ...

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 ...

Trump’s calls to eliminate the filibuster and also to do away with blue slips, which allow Senators to hold judicial ...

President Trump is calling on Senate Republicans to end the government shutdown by killing the filibuster – in what he declared would be the “nuclear option” for the GOP. “It is now time for the ...

HAMPSHIRE SEEKING TO RETURN TO WASHINGTON ARE NOT ON BOARD. JOHN SUNUNU AND SCOTT BROWN, BOTH FORMER U.S. SENATORS NOW VYING FOR THE 2026 REPUBLICAN U.S. SENATE NOMINATION, BOTH SAT DOWN FOR ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Monday there isn’t enough support from Republicans to invoke the so-called “nuclear option” and kill the upper chamber’s filibuster rule. “The votes aren’t there ...