Trump’s Call To Axe Filibuster Likely Dead On Arrival In Senate

President Donald Trump’s call to scrap the legislative filibuster is likely to fall on deaf ears among Senate Republicans.

Trump rattled off two Truth Social posts on Thursday evening urging Republicans to circumvent Democrats’ opposition to ending the 31-day shutdown by eliminating the filibuster, a procedural rule requiring most legislation to obtain 60 votes — and bipartisan support — to advance. Spokespersons for top Senate Republicans immediately pushed back on the idea.

“ Leader Thune’s position on the importance of the legislative filibuster is unchanged,” Ryan Wrasse, a spokesman for the majority leader, said on Friday.

Kate Noyes, spokeswoman for Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso, said the second-ranking Republican’s support for the legislative filibuster has not changed.

Both Thune and Barrasso have consistently argued that the legislative filibuster is a crucial bulwark against Democrats’ enacting a far-left agenda the next time they wield power in Washington.

“The Democrats would love for us to do that ,” Barrasso told Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade on Oct. 21. “They tried to do it last time because they wanted to add D.C. and Puerto Rico as states with more Democrat senators. They wanted to expand the Supreme Court from 9 to 13, and they wanted to get rid of voter ID, so that’s not something that we’re going to entertain.”

Trump wrote on TruthSocial that Democrats have “lost all sense of WISDOM and REALITY,” and implored Senate Republicans to invoke the “nuclear option” and eliminate the Senate filibuster.

….BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT THE DEMOCRATS HAVE GONE STONE COLD ‘CRAZY,’ THE CHOICE IS CLEAR — INITIATE THE ‘NUCLEAR OPTION,’ GET RID OF THE FILIBUSTER AND, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” Trump’s second Truth Social post read in part.