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Government shutdown updates: Trump again calls on Senate GOP to end filibuster
Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s position against eliminating the Senate filibuster has not changed, a spokesperson told ABC News Friday, after Trump on Thursday called on Republicans to go "nuclear" and eliminate the filibuster to pass the Republican funding bill and reopen the government.

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Republican leaders reject Trump’s demands to scrap the Senate filibuster to end the shutdown
Republican leaders reject ending the Senate filibuster despite Trump’s call to nuke it
Republicans shrug off Trump's call to scrap Senate filibuster over shutdown
Republicans on Friday showed little sign of heeding President Donald Trump 's latest call to jettison the Senate filibuster and bypass a Democratic roadblock to reopening the partially shuttered fede...

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What Is the Filibuster and Why Does Trump Want It Gone?
As shutdown drags on, filibuster shows how “both parties have been hypocritical”
Trump Calls for US Senate to Scrap Filibuster Rule
The federal government shutdown could cost the U.S. economy between $7 billion and $14 billion, shaving up to 2% from gross domestic product in the fourth quarter due to the lapse in government spend...

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What’s a filibuster? And why does Trump want to kill it?
Americans are being hit hard by the shutdown, and the numbers show who they blame: Poll

Trump calls for end of Senate filibuster

Emeritus professor of political science Bruce Miroff, PH.D., from the University at Albany, discusses President Donald Trump’s call to end the Senate filibuster.

Federal judges order Trump admin to continue SNAP benefits.

Judges order SNAP food benefits to continue. A federal judge in Rhode Island said he would order the Trump administration to continue providing SNAP food benefits despite the gove
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