President Trump Calls Out GOP: “End The Filibuster Or We’ll Never Fix This Country!"

It’s been over a month since the government shutdown begin.

Since the Democrats won’t vote to re-open the government, President Trump is calling for Republicans to take things into their own hands.

During his 60 Minutes interview on Sunday, President Trump once again called for Republicans to invoke the nuclear option and end the filibuster.

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🚨 TRUMP: “REPUBLICANS SHOULD END THE FILIBUSTER”

President Trump is urging Republicans to abolish the Senate filibuster, arguing it’s the only way to push through his legislative agenda and stop Democrats from what he calls “radical spending schemes.”

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🚨 TRUMP: “REPUBLICANS SHOULD END THE FILIBUSTER”

President Trump is urging Republicans to abolish the Senate filibuster, arguing it’s the only way to push through his legislative agenda and stop Democrats from what he calls “radical spending schemes.”

“The problem is, [Democrats] want to give money to prisoners, drug dealers, and to all these millions of people that were allowed to come in with an Open Border from Biden. Not one Republican would ever do that… There is something wrong with these people. We’ll get it solved, eventually… It’s called ending the filibuster.”

Trump’s message: the GOP can’t govern with 60-vote rules, it’s time to go nuclear.

Yesterday evening, President Trump doubled down in a Truth Social post, where he called for Republicans to end the filibuster for good!

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TERMINATE THE FILIBUSTER, NOT JUST FOR THE SHUTDOWN, BUT FOR EVERYTHING ELSE. WE WILL GET ALL OF OUR COMMON SENSE POLICIES APPROVED (VOTER ID, ANYONE?) AND MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! REMEMBER, THE DEMOCRATS WILL DO IT IMMEDIATELY, AS SOON AS THEY GET THE CHANCE. OUR DOING IT WILL NOT GIVE THEM THE CHANCE. REPUBLICANS, BE TOUGH AND SMART! THE DEMS ARE CRAZED LUNATICS, THEY WILL NOT OPEN UP OUR COUNTRY NO MATTER HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE IRREPARABLY HARMED!

However, today, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson defended the filibuster, refusing to end it despite pressure from President Trump.

Now, it’s obviously not up to Speaker Johnson whether or not the Senate ends the filibuster.

But, similarly, Senate Majority Leader John Thune has called the nuclear option a “bad idea.”

The Hill has more:

At a press conference Monday, Johnson said he spoke to Trump “multiple times” over the weekend, adding, “and of course, the filibuster came up.”

“I understand desperate times call for desperate measures. I also understand that traditionally, we’ve seen that as an important safeguard,” Johnson told reporters, referring to the filibuster, which effectively requires 60 votes in the 100-seat chamber to pass most legislation.

If Senate leadership decided to use the “nuclear option” to carveout an exception to the filibuster, the upper chamber would only need 50 votes to pass the GOP proposal to reopen the government.

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Johnson made clear that “this is a Senate matter” and that his “opinion is irrelevant.” But he expressed concern that Democrats, in the future, could “nuke” the filibuster to make it easier to pass parts of their agenda.

“I obviously shared my thoughts with the president on that,” the Speaker said. “As much as I have wanted to blow up the filibuster sometimes, as a House member, when we were not getting what we wanted done in our agenda, I hear my Senate Republican colleagues — some of the most conservative people in Congress — who say it’s an important safeguard. It prevents us, it holds us back from the Democrats’ worst impulses.”

“I mean, there’s a lot of abuses that could come and so that’s the caveat. That’s what they’re working through,” Johnson added…

Senate GOP leaders have ruled out a potential change to the filibuster to reopen the government. Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) told reporters last month that getting rid of the filibuster in order to reopen government would be a “bad idea.”