Ron Johnson's reversal came just after President Trump called on Senate Republicans to end the filibuster as a way to end the government shutdown

Suspending or eliminating the Senate’s current defining feature — the filibuster — is something no Republican Senate leader has backed in decades. Thune, a lifelong institutionalist, is having none of it.

Bipartisan Senate talks aimed at ending the government shutdown continued as both parties grappled with the fallout from Tuesday's elections, and the FAA said it would cut airline capacity in dozens of markets.