The president argued that lowering the threshold to pass legislation would allow Republicans to move an agenda that would benefit them in next year’s midterms.

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

Trump continues to insist the best way out of the shutdown is for Republicans to end the filibuster. GOP senators aren’t having it.

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

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.

Senate Republican support for eliminating the filibuster is picking up momentum after President Trump invited members of the Senate GOP conference to the White House for a breakfast meeting

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.

Trump told Republican senators that he believed the government shutdown 'was a big factor' in the party's losses in Tuesday's election.