From the “Politics Makes Strange Bedfellows” file:

President Donald Trump is demanding that the U.S. kill the filibuster rule, putting him at odds with the two Granite State Republicans running for U.S. Senate — and on the same side of the issue as Democratic Sens. Maggie Hassan and Jeanne Shaheen.

Meanwhile, Democrat Rep. Chris Pappas — who hopes to replace Shaheen next year — is part of an effort to add the filibuster rule to the U.S. Constitution. He’s a member of the Problem Solvers Caucus, which has proposed a resolution mandating that “debate upon legislation pending before the Senate may not be brought to a close without the concurrence of a minimum of three-fifths of the Senators.”

In a statement, the caucus calls the filibuster “the single most important rule for preserving

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