FIGHTING THE GOVERNMENT-CLOSING DEMOCRATIC FILIBUSTER. In the last week or so, there have been two conflicting interpretations of what is going on among the Senate Democrats who are using the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Seemingly frustrated by the government shutdown and Democrats’ unwillingness to accept a Republican funding bill, President Donald Trump is once again demanding that the Senate ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune is on a collision course with President Donald Trump over nixing a longstanding legislative tool to end the 36-day government shutdown. Thune, who pledged to defend ...

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As Republicans and Democrats battle for the upper hand in the federal government shutdown, President Donald Trump has zeroed in on a new target for potentially breaking the deadlock: eliminating the ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday escalated pressure on Senate Republicans, renewing calls for them to “TERMINATE THE FILIBUSTER” as negotiations over a Department of Homeland Security funding deal ...

Some days you sit down to write a column and realize all the ideas you have are going to piss a large section of the audience off. At that point, you have a choice to either pick one and plow ahead, ...

“TERMINATE THE FILIBUSTER NOW … END THE RIDICULOUS SHUTDOWN IMMEDIATELY,” President Trump wrote on Truth Social. And, also in capital letters, he explained why: “AND THEN, MOST IMPORTANTLY, PASS EVERY ...

Republican senators weighed in this week on calls to end the filibuster following the continued failure by the Senate to open the government. In an interview with Fox News’s Sean Hannity, Sen. Josh ...