Trump is ramping up pressure on Republicans to abolish the Senate filibuster—an action known as the “nuclear option.”

President Donald Trump has urged Senate Republicans to use the "nuclear option" to end the current government shutdown. The "nuclear option" would allow Senate rules to be changed with a simple majority vote, bypassing the filibuster. This shutdown is on ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is now calling for Senate Republicans to do away with the filibuster, a congressional rule meant to keep the balance of power in the upper chamber, because it is one of the main obstacles in the way of passing a budget bill and ending the federal shutdown.

President Donald Trump knows he’s losing the politics of the government shutdown so far. But that’s not making him any more inclined to give ground on the Democratic demands that could bring the standoff to a swift end.

A flight delay had stalled the Republican Cornyn, who was flying from Texas to cast a 60th and final vote in the U.S. Senate chamber on Capitol Hill, according to his office. The vote to break a filibuster on a new government spending plan was open for more than two hours so he could arrive, according to another report by Roll Call.

Alex Funk, political director of College Democrats, expressed hope that there wouldn’t be further shutdowns. “I'm hopeful that we can keep coming to bipartisan agreements to keep the government open, but you never know. Today's politics are a crazy world,” she said.

President Trump has called for the end of the filibuster in the Senate, which would allow Republican policies to be passed more easily, but this would also unleash the tyranny of the majority and

Members of the House from Illinois voted along party lines as Congress passed a government funding package to end the shutdown.

It was completely predictable that President Donald Trump would call on Senate Republicans to end the custom of the filibuster, which has bedeviled majority parties for years.