Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) says the votes “aren’t there” to eliminate the filibuster to reopen the federal government and pushed back on President Trump’s prediction that the

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 country split along party lines and the Senate ...

U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds, who is running to be Florida's next governor, called for U.S. Senate GOP leaders to end the filibuster.

President Trump is showing mounting frustration at his inability to win confirmation of U.S. attorneys in blue states or break the filibuster's grip on the Senate. The G.O.P. has been uncharacteristically uncooperative.

Senate Republicans aren’t ready to go "nuclear" again to change the rules around the Senate filibuster as Senate Democrats dig deeper against the GOP’s push to reopen the government. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., and Republicans need at ...

Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, has an idea to end the federal shutdown: “Let’s make this a Republican-only vote.” The first-term senator pitched the notion during an appearance Wednesday night on Fox News, lamenting that the filibuster was allowing ...

The filibuster is keeping the government shutdown alive. Republicans hold a majority in the Senate, but filibustering Democrats have enough votes to keep the GOP from reaching the 60-vote threshold now needed to pass most legislation. Some Republican ...

Republican and Democratic lawmakers remain at a stalemate on finding a government funding solution to end what is now the second-longest shutdown in U.S. history. The Senate is scheduled to reconvene at 3 p.