"Terminate the filibuster, not just for the shutdown, but for everything else," Trump wrote Nov. 2 on Truth Social. He said Democrats would end the filibuster "immediately, as soon as they get the chance. Our doing it will not give them the chance."

Trump is ramping up pressure on Republicans to abolish the Senate filibuster—an action known as the “nuclear option.”

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) says the votes “aren’t there” to eliminate the filibuster to reopen the federal government and pushed back on President Trump’s prediction that the

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is now calling for Senate Republicans to do away with the filibuster, a congressional rule meant to keep the balance of power in the upper chamber, because it is one of the main obstacles in the way of passing a budget bill and ending the federal shutdown.

The Wall Street Journal editorial board warned Republicans that following President Donald Trump’s calls to end the Senate filibuster would be “dumb.” Since the start of the government shutdown, 79-year-old Trump has posted multiple times on Truth Social using all caps to call for the “NUCLEAR OPTION”—his term for ending the filibuster to break the impasse.

President Trump's Truth Social demands to end the filibuster are just a hint of his coming rampage if Senate Republicans hold out against him, advisers tell Axios. Why it matters: Most Senate Republicans have no interest in nuking the filibuster.