WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is pushing Senate Republicans to abolish the 60-vote filibuster rule in order to reopen the shuttered government without Democratic votes.

But in a rarity for the president, he’s hitting firm and immediate resistance from his own party.

“It is now time for the Republicans to play their ‘TRUMP CARD,’ and go for what is called the Nuclear Option — Get rid of the Filibuster, and get rid of it, NOW!” he wrote in a pair of late-night social media posts Thursday. “Well, now WE are in power, and if we did what we should be doing, it would IMMEDIATELY end this ridiculous, Country destroying ‘SHUT DOWN.’”

Senate Republican leaders have been outspoken in their support for the 60-vote rule to pass most bills. The new Majority Leader, John Thune, R-S.D., pr

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