What’s a filibuster? And how will it benefit Trump if Senate ends the practice?

The filibuster isn’t in the Constitution and it wasn’t part of the Founding Fathers’ vision for the Senate. It was created ...

Trump’s calls to scrap Senate filibuster reach a fever pitch

President Donald Trump repeatedly demanded that the Senate scrap its filibuster rule on Sunday, a call that has become more ...
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What's the filibuster rule? Trump says to end the Senate practice

Donald Trump, in a long Truth Social post, said the GOP should end the shutdown by doing away with the filibuster to pass ...

Senate vote fails for 14th time, ensuring longest government shutdown in history: Recap

The Senate failed for the 14th time to advance House-passed legislation to reopen the government on the day the shutdown tied ...

Trump makes another desperate plea to Senate Republicans after huge election losses

Trump urged Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) last week to eliminate the filibuster — a procedure that allows ...

How the Senate filibuster works and what advocates and critics say about it

Congressional Republicans are pushing back on calls from the White House to end the filibuster so that Republicans don't need ...

As shutdown drags on, filibuster shows how “both parties have been hypocritical”

Senate Democrats who had pushed vociferously for the filibuster’s elimination just four years ago are using it to try to ...