WASHINGTON — With another potential congressional budget fight looming in January, President Donald Trump is continuing to press Senate Republicans to abolish the chamber’s longstanding filibuster rule that promotes bipartisan buy-in for major pieces of legislation to pass.

Trump was unsuccessful in his push for Senate Republicans to employ "the nuclear option” and get rid of the chamber’s 60-vote threshold during the recent 43-day shutdown, but he has not backed down from his demand that the rule be removed to provide an easier path to pass remaining parts of his agenda along purely partisan lines.

"If we had the filibuster terminated, this would never happen again,” Trump said from the Oval Office after signing the bill to reopen the federal government on Nov. 12. "And we should be abl

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