Democrats hit back Thursday at President Donald Trump’s threat to fire thousands of federal workers if the government shuts down as soon as next week.

The rules were changed after Democrats forced multiple votes on almost every Trump pick, infuriating the president and stalling the process.

It was a full-on nuclear explosion. Just like the Pacific Testing Grounds near the Marshall Islands and French Polynesia. But this political blast tore through the Senate chamber. In November 2013, ...

Late Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) detonated the first Senate "nuclear option" in 2013, curbing the filibuster to confirm executive branch nominees - except for the Supreme Court. Former ...

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WASHINGTON — Republican leaders are moving closer to implementing a major change to Senate rules that would allow them to confirm scores of President Donald Trump’s nominees in batches, rather than ...

Senate Republicans used what is known as the nuclear option to break a Democratic blockade of President Trump’s nominees, weakening Congress’s vetting role. By Michael Gold Reporting from the Capitol ...

Republicans jammed through a change to Senate rules on Thursday that will allow them to more quickly confirm many of President Donald Trump’s nominees. The move came over the objections of Democrats ...

All Democrats were opposed. Then, under the new rules, the Senate voted 53-45, along party lines, to invoke cloture on the resolution, ending the filibuster on the four-dozen-nominee package. A final ...

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema on Tuesday ripped Vice President Kamala Harris’ support for scrapping the legislative filibuster to enact federal abortion rights, drawing praise from Kari Lake, the Republican ...