Trump Demands GOP Kill Filibuster in First Remarks After Election; Says Democrats ‘Want to Cheat!’

David Gilmour Nov 5th, 2025, 9:24 am

President Donald Trump urged Republicans to kill the filibuster and implement electoral reform during an address at a breakfast with his party’s senators on Wednesday, just hours after a bruising series of electoral losses, claiming that Democrats “want to cheat.”

In an aside, the president insisted Republicans should torch the 60-vote rule and ram through their agenda before Democrats can block them.

Most Republican senators remain deeply reluctant to go there, mindful that Democrats would inherit the same power the next time they control the chamber. Trump warned that the future could already be lost and that Democrats will blow through norm

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