Trump Demands Senators Stay In Town to Reach a Deal or Kill ‘Filibuster, IMMEDIATELY’

David Gilmour Nov 7th, 2025, 5:19 pm

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President Donald Trump demanded that senators “not leave town” until the country’s longest-ever shutdown is resolved and threatened to “terminate” the filibuster “IMMEDIATELY” if both sides cannot reach a deal.

Taking to Truth Social late Friday, the president wrote:

The repeated call to end the filibuster, the 60-vote threshold that has defined modern Senate dealmaking for decades, has become instrumental to Trump’s pressure campaign as the shutdown drags toward its fourth week.

Minutes before Trump’s post, Senate Majority Leader John Thune rejected outright a Democratic proposal to reopen the government and simultaneously extend premi

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