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Trump, Filibuster and John Thune

Thune says ending filibuster 'not happening' despite Trump's demands

Returning from the White House Wednesday after President Donald Trump made yet another call for Senate Republicans to overturn the filibuster, Majority Leader John Thune reiterated his view that there are not the necessary votes among Senate Republicans to change the Senate rules.

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EXCLUSIVE: John Thune Is Defying Trump On The Filibuster. Here’s His Explanation.

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Thune: Votes ‘aren’t there’ to eliminate filibuster, despite Trump push

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Trump Increases Pressure on His Own Party as the Shutdown Grinds On

President Trump has called on Republicans to end the filibuster as both parties search for a path out of the shutdown.

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How the Senate filibuster works, why Trump wants it ended, and why it likely will stay

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Republicans shaken by election losses — and split on how to fix things

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Trump faces rare Republican pushback as he presses Senate to scrap the filibuster

President Donald Trump is finding that Senate Republicans have a limit as he pushes them to scrap the filibuster.

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Senate majority leader says he doesn’t have the votes to eliminate filibuster despite Trump’s wishes

Under former President Joe Biden, Senate Democrats tried but failed to abolish the filibuster. The party encountered opposition from centrist Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona — both of whom later switched their affiliations to independent — when they attempted the gambit.

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Republican leaders reject ending the Senate filibuster despite Trump’s call to nuke it

The top two Republicans in Congress are showing no interest in taking the unprecedented step of ending the legislative filibuster, just hours after President Donald Trump made a fresh demand for the Senate to do so to end the government shutdown.

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Senate Majority Leader John Thune Is Defying Trump On The Filibuster, Here’s His Explanation

Senate Majority Leader John Thune is on a collision course with President Donald Trump over nixing a longstanding legislative tool to end the 36-day government shutdown. Thune, who pledged to defend the filibuster on Day One of his leadership tenure,

Trump calls on GOP senators to end budget impasse, reopen government

President Donald Trump addressed GOP senators on Wednesday, urging them to end the budget impasse with their democratic counterparts to reopen the federal government amid the longest shutdown in U.S.

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GOP Has New Offer to End the Shutdown

Senate Republicans are making another attempt to end the government shutdown, now the longest in history, but Democrats are apparently unswayed. Senate Majority Leader John Thune is preparing a new vote to reopen the government on Friday,

President Trump urges Republicans to reopen government as shutdown marks longest in US history

The U.S. government shutdown has become the longest in history, with President Trump urging Republicans to end the Senate filibuster to reopen the government.