{"id":18613,"date":"2026-02-03T15:46:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T15:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/no-filibuster-deal-with-house-conservatives-thune-says\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T15:46:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T15:46:42","slug":"no-filibuster-deal-with-house-conservatives-thune-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/no-filibuster-deal-with-house-conservatives-thune-says\/","title":{"rendered":"No filibuster deal with House conservatives, Thune says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Senate Majority Leader John Thune said in an interview Tuesday he has made no decisions about bypassing Senate filibuster rules to skirt the normal 60-vote margin required to advance legislation in the chamber.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) said Monday she had White House-brokered &#8220;assurances&#8221; that the Senate would allow for a &#8220;standing&#8221; or &#8220;talking&#8221; filibuster that could allow the SAVE Act, a House-passed elections bill <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/02\/02\/congress\/mike-johnson-save-act-spending-00760523\" target=\"_blank\">pushed by conservative hard-liners<\/a>, to be enacted into law.<\/p>\n<p>Thune was not party to Luna&#8217;s conversation with President Donald Trump, which prompted Luna to indicate she would support a massive spending bill moving through the House on Tuesday. Many GOP senators have long opposed weakening the 60-vote margin, believing it would open the door to far-reaching Democratic policies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some of our colleagues in the Senate are interested in it,&#8221; Thune said. &#8220;We will have a conversation about it. Nothing decided.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Majority Leader John Thune said in an interview Tuesday he has made no decisions about bypassing Senate filibuster rules to skirt the normal 60-vote margin required to advance legislation in the chamber. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) said Monday she had White House-brokered &#8220;assurances&#8221; that the Senate would allow for a &#8220;standing&#8221; or &#8220;talking&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/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-18613","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\/18613","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=18613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}