US EditionTrump’s Call for End to Filibuster Faces GOP Headwinds
President Trump urges ending the Senate filibuster to break a month-long government shutdown, but most Republican senators oppose removing the 60-vote rule to preserve Senate tradition.
- On Friday, October 31, 2025, President Donald Trump urged the U.S. Senate to scrap the filibuster to end the month-long shutdown, pushing the `NUCLEAR OPTION` in a late-night social post.
- With 53 GOP senators, Republicans lack the 60 votes needed to advance funding bills, while Democrats refuse to reopen government without extending Affordable Care Act subsidies.
- Two judges ruled that SNAP must be funded despite the White House refusing contingency funds, and Trump's summer bill is projected to remove 2.4 million people from the program.
- Republican leaders immediately rejected the idea, and House Speaker Mike Johnson said `The safeguard in the Senate has always been the filibuster` while declining to press the issue.
- The filibuster's rules have been altered before, including 2013 and 2017 changes led by then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Republicans, while Sen. Kyrsten Sinema and Sen. Joe Manchin opposed major changes in 2022, and earlier this year Republicans eased confirming many nominees.
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GOP offers a new incentive to 'proceed' as Senate gathers for shutdown vote
U.S. senators will vote again on Friday, marking the 38th day of the government shutdown, in an effort to break the stalemate. This time, Republicans are offering a new incentive, hoping Democrats will accept the deal. CBS News reported that Republicans are adding language to the bill that would guarantee a future vote on extending health care subsidies set to expire under the Affordable Care Act. Senate Majority Leader John Thune said he's hope…
Trump Pushes Senate GOP to End Filibuster, Claims Democrats Will Do It Anyway Once They Are Back in Power
President Donald Trump is pushing Congress to end the filibuster, but Republican members of the Senate say such a move would be shortsighted. On Thursday, Trump posted via Truth Social […] The post Trump Pushes Senate GOP to End Filibuster, Claims Democrats Will Do It Anyway Once They Are Back in Power appeared first on The Western Journal.
At the end of Thursday, President Donald Trump renewed his call to eliminate parliamentary filibusterism or obstructionism to force the passage of laws that put an end to the closure of the government, but his petition is unlikely to have much echo among Republicans who control the Senate. Many Republicans, especially senior members, fear that any weakening of the emblematic Senate rule demanding that the majority of the legislation get 60 votes…
Republicans shrug off Trump’s call to scrap Senate filibuster over shutdown
WASHINGTON — Republicans on Friday showed little sign of heeding President Donald Trump’s latest call to jettison the Senate filibuster and bypass a Democratic roadblock to reopening the partially shuttered federal government.
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