{"id":15070,"date":"2025-10-31T10:17:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T10:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-urges-republicans-to-kill-the-filibuster\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T10:17:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T10:17:04","slug":"trump-urges-republicans-to-kill-the-filibuster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-urges-republicans-to-kill-the-filibuster\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump urges Republicans to kill the filibuster"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Donald Trump on Thursday night urged the GOP to eliminate the filibuster and end a monthlong government shutdown and standoff between Republicans and Democrats.<\/p>\n

“Get rid of the Filibuster, and get rid of it, NOW!'” Trump posted on<\/a> his social media platform Truth Social.<\/p>\n

In a separate post, he wrote<\/a>, \u201cTHE CHOICE IS CLEAR \u2014 INITIATE THE \u201cNUCLEAR OPTION,\u201d GET RID OF THE FILIBUSTER AND, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!\u201d<\/p>\n

The filibuster is a long-standing Senate rule that allows the minority to delay or block legislation by extending debate, effectively requiring 60 votes to advance most bills. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, a Republican and staunch institutionalist, has previously ruled out eliminating or weakening the 60-vote threshold, describing it<\/a> as a \u201cbulwark against a lot of really bad things.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the government shutdown enters its 30th day, there is no obvious end in sight, though Republicans and Democrats have both signaled openness to a solution.<\/p>\n

Trump said he had \u201cthought a great deal\u201d about the impasse while flying back to Washington from Asia. \u201cIf we did what we should be doing, it would IMMEDIATELY end this ridiculous, Country destroying \u2018SHUT DOWN,\u2019\u201d he said, adding Democrats would scrap the filibuster if they got the chance.<\/p>\n

Some Democrats under former President Joe Biden, such as Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, indeed called for changes<\/a> to filibuster rules to make it harder to block or stall legislation, and others called for carve-outs on voting and reproductive rights bills.<\/p>\n

While both parties have chipped away at the filibuster over the years, Trump\u2019s demand to kill it would be unprecedented and require a simple majority of 51 votes. But though some Senate Republicans have said they\u2019re open to it, a few haven\u2019t, and there\u2019s only 53 of them, so Trump might not have the votes for his \u201cnuclear option.\u201d<\/p>\n

North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis said last week<\/a> the \u201cfilibuster is not going away this Congress \u2026 I think Republicans have made that very clear.\u201d Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Texas Sen. John Cornyn and Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford also voiced their opposition to nixing the rule.<\/p>\n

The Senate Republicans who have warmed to the idea of overturning the filibuster to reopen the government as the shutdown drags on include Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville, who said it was \u201cprobably a viable option<\/a>,\u201d and Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley, who said<\/a>, \u201cMy thought is that I’m not willing to see children in my state go hungry … over some Senate procedure.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is not Trump\u2019s first time calling for the filibuster to be axed. He called the rule<\/a> a \u201cjoke\u201d during his first term in 2017, tweeting that it was \u201ckilling\u201d the GOP and \u201callows 8 Dems to control [the] country.\u201d And, again in 2018, he urged Republicans<\/a> to use the \u201cNuclear Option to pass tough laws NOW.\u201d<\/p>\n

With the Senate is not scheduled to return to Washington until Monday evening, the government shutdown is approaching the record for the longest ever: 35 days.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump on Thursday night urged the GOP to eliminate the filibuster and end a monthlong government shutdown and standoff between Republicans and Democrats. “Get rid of the Filibuster, and get rid of it, NOW!’” Trump posted on his social media platform Truth Social. In a separate post, he wrote, \u201cTHE CHOICE IS CLEAR […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15070","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=15070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}