WASHINGTON — Some Senate Republicans who once rejected any future in which the filibuster was toppled are now embracing the prospect after President Donald Trump warned it was the only way to advance their agenda without Democratic obstruction.

In a brief breakfast meeting with Senate Republicans on Wednesday, Trump lamented that the government shutdown was costing the party after big election wins for Democrats in Virginia, New Jersey, California and New York City.

Utah Sen. John Curtis, who was present at the meeting, told the Deseret News that Trump believes the government shutdown “contributed” to those losses and had pressed Senate Republicans to cement their power on Capitol Hill.

One way to do that, Trump suggested, was to end the filibuster.

“It’s time for Republicans to do w

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