As Republicans and Democrats battle for the upper hand in the federal government shutdown, President Donald Trump has zeroed in on a new target for potentially breaking the deadlock: eliminating the ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: A version of this story was first published in 2021, when Democrats were trying to end the filibuster. It was completely predictable that President Donald Trump would call on Senate ...

President Donald Trump isn’t dropping his quest to eliminate the filibuster. That’s going to get complicated for Senate Republicans in an election year. The president’s fixation with undoing the ...

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 ...

In 2013, the then-­majority Democrats in the Senate, under the leadership of Sen. Harry Reid, changed U.S. Senate rules regarding the filibuster to eliminate it, but only for approving presidential ...

The ongoing federal government shutdown is set to become the longest in U.S. history, impacting federal workers and millions of Americans. Republicans and Democrats are deadlocked over issues ...

There is a rule in Washington that operates with almost mathematical precision: whichever party controls the Senate wants to abolish the filibuster, and whichever party doesn’t control the Senate ...

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 ...

Amid the U.S. government shutdown, which has stretched into its second month, President Donald Trump is ramping up the pressure on Republicans to abolish the Senate filibuster—an action commonly known ...