{"id":15051,"date":"2025-10-31T09:20:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T09:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-calls-on-republicans-to-use-nuclear-option-and-get-rid-of-senate-filibuster\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T09:20:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T09:20:43","slug":"trump-calls-on-republicans-to-use-nuclear-option-and-get-rid-of-senate-filibuster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-calls-on-republicans-to-use-nuclear-option-and-get-rid-of-senate-filibuster\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump calls on Republicans to use &#8216;nuclear option&#8217; and get rid of Senate filibuster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump on Thursday called on Senate Republicans to initiate the &#8220;nuclear option&#8221; and get rid of the filibuster, which would allow them to end the government shutdown and pass legislation with a simple majority. &#8220;It is now time for the Republicans to play their &#8216;TRUMP CARD,&#8217; and go for what is called the Nuclear&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5582593-trump-urges-end-filibuster\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump on Thursday called on Senate Republicans to initiate the &#8220;nuclear option&#8221; and get rid of the filibuster, which would allow them to end the government shutdown and pass legislation with a simple majority. &#8220;It is now time for the Republicans to play their &#8216;TRUMP CARD,&#8217; and go for what is called the Nuclear&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}