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 ...

Could the Senate’s tradition of almost unlimited debate wind up a victim of the GOP majority in Congress? That’s an emerging prospect — though far from a certainty — as the government shutdown drags ...

President Trump has called for the end of the filibuster in the Senate, which would allow Republican policies to be passed ...

Whenever the gavel switches from the hands of one party to the other in the Senate, lawmakers engage in a public round of debate about a long-established political tradition — the filibuster. With the ...

Senate Republican support for eliminating the filibuster is picking up momentum after President Trump invited members of the ...

President Donald Trump is calling on Republicans to get rid of the Senate filibuster to end the government shutdown—but many in his party are pushing back. “It is now time for the Republicans to play ...

As the government shutdown nears becoming the longest in U.S. history, President Donald Trump has called on Senate ...

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 ...

Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) is ready for the federal government shutdown to be over — so much so he is ready support Republicans “nuking” the Senate filibuster to get the job done. Fetterman spoke ...