{"id":19869,"date":"2026-03-11T13:46:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T13:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/cornyn-backs-ending-filibuster-as-he-courts-trumps-endorsement\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T13:46:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T13:46:48","slug":"cornyn-backs-ending-filibuster-as-he-courts-trumps-endorsement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/cornyn-backs-ending-filibuster-as-he-courts-trumps-endorsement\/","title":{"rendered":"Cornyn backs ending filibuster as he courts Trump\u2019s endorsement"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sen. John Cornyn threw his support behind scrapping the filibuster to pass a voting restrictions bill President Donald Trump has called his \u201cNo. 1 priority\u201d in Congress, as the Texas Republican continues to seek the president\u2019s endorsement and stave off a bruising primary runoff election.<\/p>\n

Trump has held off on endorsing Cornyn<\/a>, the pick of top Senate Republicans, over Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in a bid to pressure leadership to lower the threshold of votes needed to pass the SAVE America Act, which would enact citizenship and photo ID restrictions in elections while also targeting transgender rights. Paxton has said he would suspend his bid if the bill passes.<\/p>\n

Cornyn, long a supporter of the Senate filibuster, came out forcefully for repealing the rule in a Wednesday morning New York Post op-ed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter careful consideration, I support whatever changes to Senate rules that may prove necessary for us to get the SAVE America Act and homeland security funding past the Democrats\u2019 obstruction, through the Senate, and on the president\u2019s desk for his signature,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

Trump called on Republicans<\/a> to pass the SAVE America Act in a speech at his golf club in Doral, Florida, on Monday, arguing, \u201cI don\u2019t think we should approve anything until this is approved.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will guarantee the midterms,\u201d he said. \u201cIf you don\u2019t get it, big trouble, my opinion.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked Tuesday about the talking filibuster, Cornyn indicated to reporters he would support it to pass the SAVE America Act and teased he would be making a longer announcement Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn these critical issues, at this critical hour, the old procedures no longer align with the core American principles we must defend,\u201d he wrote<\/a>. \u201c It is time for our Senate Republican Conference, led by our strong and strategic Majority Leader John Thune, to retake the initiative, rebuild momentum and get results.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jordain Carney contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sen. John Cornyn threw his support behind scrapping the filibuster to pass a voting restrictions bill President Donald Trump has called his \u201cNo. 1 priority\u201d in Congress, as the Texas Republican continues to seek the president\u2019s endorsement and stave off a bruising primary runoff election. Trump has held off on endorsing Cornyn, the pick of […]<\/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-19869","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\/19869","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=19869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}