President Donald Trump on Wednesday blamed his party’s bruising election night losses on the government shutdown and urged Republicans to end the funding gridlock, displaying fresh urgency as sweeping Democratic victories portended midterm trouble for the GOP.

“We have to get the country open. And the way we’re going to do it this afternoon is to terminate the filibuster,” Trump said during a meeting with Republican senators at the White House. “We will pass legislation that you’ve never seen before, and it’ll be impossible to beat us.”

The directive marked a shift in tone for Trump, who has laid the responsibility for ending the shutdown on Democratic leaders, even as it eclipsed past records and disrupted food aid for millions of Americans. He warned the group of Republican leaders on

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