"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