President Donald Trump and Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent urged an end to the Senate filibuster rule ahead of an anticipated budget battle in January.

I hate to agree with President Donald Trump, but why do we put up with the 60-vote requirement (aka filibuster) for most votes in the Senate? Last year’s election in the U.K. shows that with the ...

Rule allows minority party to block legislation, but GOP is reluctant to scrap it as they could lose majority ...

The word “filibuster,” which derives from a Dutch term for pirates and plunderers, somehow came to describe those who disrupt legislative business. The practice is much older — Cato the Younger was ...

For decades, conservatives have treated the Senate filibuster as a sacred protection against liberal overreach — a procedural shield that forces bipartisanship and slows the advance of progressive ...

Frustrated by the ongoing government shutdown, President Donald Trump has repeatedly called on Senate Republicans to go for the “nuclear option” and get rid of the filibuster in recent days. “It is ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune and his leadership team know that another Democrat-fueled government shutdown is fast approaching on Jan. 30, 2026. Americans have never seen anything like the ...

President Donald Trump is urging Senate Republicans to end the filibuster to bring the month-long government shutdown to a close. That's a really bad idea, and the Republicans know it's a really bad ...

Republicans and Democrats have been guilty of attempting to abolish the filibuster when they held power. The truth is, the filibuster is merely a Senate procedure to shut off debate that has existed ...

Bravo to Senate Majority Leader John Thune and other Republican senators for refusing to even consider President Trump’s demand to get rid of the filibuster that protects the rights of the chamber’s ...

President Trump is right in his a call for the Senate to eliminate the filibuster — the procedural rule requiring a 60-vote supermajority to advance most legislation. Critics decry this as a power ...

Over the past two decades both parties in the U.S. Senate have threatened to repeal the century-old filibuster by use of the so-called “nuclear option.” That term described the rare parliamentary ...