President Trump on Wednesday again urged Republican Senators to kill the filibuster as a means to end the record-shattering government shutdown.

Why it matters: Despite Trump's demands for a simple-majority Senate to speed his agenda, many Senate Republicans — including Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) — have opposed to the idea.

Driving the news: "If you don't terminate the filibuster, you'll be in bad shape," the president told GOP senators the morning after Democrats claimed a wave of key victories in off-year elections. • The government remains shut down — and has become the longest shutdown in history, surpassing the record set during Trump's first term.

What he's saying: "We have to get the country open," he said. "And the way we're going to do it this afternoon is to termina

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