In perhaps the most publicly tense moment of this 29-day standoff, Senate Majority Leader John Thune blocked an effort by ...

Senate Republicans are resisting his demand to end the long-standing filibuster rule in order to end the government shutdown.

The top two Republicans in Congress are showing no interest in taking the unprecedented step of ending the legislative ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune promised after last year's election that the legislative filibuster, which requires 60 ...

President Trump's call to terminate the filibuster could alter the ways the Senate and congressional dealmaking operate.

Trump’s sudden decision to assert himself into the shutdown debate — bringing the highly charged demand to end the filibuster ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune's stance on the filibuster is "unchanged" despite President Trump's call to scrap the rule ...

Republicans on Friday showed little sign of heeding President Donald Trump's latest call to jettison the Senate filibuster ...

That means the shutdown, in its 30th day, appears all but certain to stretch into another week, putting it on track to become ...

Republican U.S. President Donald Trump called on Thursday for the removal of the Senate's filibuster rule, to bypass a ...

In a pair of late-night posts, Trump told Senate Republicans to use the "nuclear option" to eliminate the 60-vote threshold ...