{"id":15317,"date":"2025-11-06T09:20:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T09:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gop-senators-hold-firm-on-filibuster-after-trumps-hard-sell-2\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T09:20:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T09:20:35","slug":"gop-senators-hold-firm-on-filibuster-after-trumps-hard-sell-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gop-senators-hold-firm-on-filibuster-after-trumps-hard-sell-2\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP senators hold firm on filibuster after Trump\u2019s hard sell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump took his pitch to nix the filibuster directly to Senate Republicans on Wednesday. They are once again saying, thanks, but no thanks. Trump spent several minutes during a breakfast meeting with GOP senators at the White House urging them to eliminate the 60-vote supermajority requirement for most bills and reopen the government on party lines &mdash; even as he acknowledged Republicans might not do it and said he would ultimately respect their &ldquo;wishes.&rdquo; &ldquo;It&rsquo;s time for Republicans to do what they have to do,&rdquo; Trump said&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/11\/05\/congress\/gop-senators-filibuster-trump-00637774\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump took his pitch to nix the filibuster directly to Senate Republicans on Wednesday. They are once again saying, thanks, but no thanks. Trump spent several minutes during a breakfast meeting with GOP senators at the White House urging them to eliminate the 60-vote supermajority requirement for most bills and reopen the government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15317","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=15317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}