{"id":975,"date":"2026-07-09T08:40:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T08:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=975"},"modified":"2026-07-09T08:40:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T08:40:16","slug":"senate-republicans-are-dug-in-against-nuking-filibuster-despite-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=975","title":{"rendered":"Senate Republicans Are Dug In Against Nuking Filibuster Despite Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>Senate Republicans are resisting President Donald Trump\u2019s escalating calls to eliminate the filibuster to end the government shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=973\">Graham Platner Drops Out of Maine Senate Race<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t have the votes to do it anyway,\u201d Sen. Steve Daines told reporters on Tuesday. \u201cIt\u2019s a moot point.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of Senate Republicans \u2014 <span><u>including top leaders<\/u><\/span> \u2014 are on the record opposing the procedural maneuver to eliminate the filibuster, marking a rare fracture between the president and the Senate. Removing the filibuster requires a simple majority in the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>That reality isn\u2019t stopping the president from demanding the so-called nuclear option.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Democrats are far more likely to win the Midterms, and the next Presidential Election, if we don\u2019t do the Termination of the Filibuster (The Nuclear Option!), because it will be impossible for Republicans to get Common Sense Policies done with these Crazed Democrat Lunatics being able to block everything by withholding their votes,\u201d Trump wrote in a Tuesday <span><u>Truth Social<\/u><\/span> post, one of two seemingly directed at the Senate making this same ask.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFOR THREE YEARS, NOTHING WILL BE PASSED, AND REPUBLICANS WILL BE BLAMED. Elections, including the Midterms, will be rightfully brutal,\u201d he continued. \u201cIf we do terminate the Filibuster, we will get EVERYTHING approved, like no Congress in History.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the White House briefing Tuesday, press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Trump \u201cfeels very strongly about\u201d his desire for the Senate to get rid of the filibuster and has expressed that to congressional Republicans privately as well.<\/p>\n<p>Majority Leader John Thune, a staunch supporter of protecting the Senate procedure, was resolute Tuesday morning that he didn\u2019t have the votes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody knows the president\u2019s position,\u201d Thune told reporters. \u201cIt\u2019s well formed, established, from his first term in office, his request to end the filibuster rule.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=971\">Maine Candidates Are Already Eyeing a Senate Bid if Platner Drops Out<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Republican Sen. John Kennedy told reporters Monday evening that he had recently spoken with Trump about retaining the filibuster and the blue slip procedure \u2014 a tradition that gives home state senators influence over judicial nominees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will vote to sustain the filibuster and to sustain the blue slip,\u201d Kennedy said, \u201cbut there\u2019s not going to even be a vote.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Mike Rounds told reporters Monday that Republican leadership has not given any guidance to the conference on issuing a vote on the filibuster. Rounds, too, is opposed to nuking the filibuster. Though, he said he understands Trump\u2019s frustration with the stalemate on Capitol Hill, especially as the shutdown becomes the longest of all time.<\/p>\n<p>House Speaker Mike Johnson said Monday, \u201cI understand desperate times call for desperate measures. I also understand that traditionally, we\u2019ve seen that as an important safeguard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Democrats are gleefully embracing the fissure between Trump and Senate Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s going to continue to make his position clear until they eventually cave, which is what they always do, because Republicans in this Congress have been nothing more than a reckless rubber stamp for Donald Trump\u2019s extreme agenda,\u201d House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told reporters Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf history is any indication,\u201d he continued, \u201cultimately, compliant Republicans in the Senate are going to cave to the demands of their puppet master, Donald J. Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=969\">Maine Mayhem<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t have the votes to do it anyway,\u201d Sen. 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