As Republicans and Democrats battle for the upper hand in the federal government shutdown, President Donald Trump has zeroed in on a new target for potentially breaking the deadlock: eliminating the ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: A version of this story was first published in 2021, when Democrats were trying to end the filibuster. It was completely predictable that President Donald Trump would call on Senate ...

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One en route to the White House on Nov. 2, 2025. Reporter Amid the U.S. government shutdown, which has stretched into its second month, ...

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 ...

The word “filibuster,” which derives from a Dutch term for pirates and plunderers, somehow came to describe those who disrupt legislative business. The practice is much older — Cato the Younger was ...

Passage of the SAVE Act is of paramount importance to President Trump and many congressional Republicans. In his State of the Union speech, the president implored lawmakers "to approve the SAVE ...