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Senate Republicans blocked bipartisan war powers resolution to halt President Donald Trump's Caribbean drug boat strikes and possibly future military action without consent from Congress.
President Donald Trump is finding that Senate Republicans have a limit as he pushes them to scrap the filibuster.
Ala., says Democratic leaders feel ‘emboldened’ after election victories, and that’s why they’re reluctant to end the shutdown on ‘The Story.’
GOP lawmakers rejected the president’s plan to end the record-setting shutdown by killing the 60-vote filibuster rule.
The top two Republicans in Congress are showing no interest in taking the unprecedented step of ending the legislative filibuster, just hours after President Donald Trump made a fresh demand for the Senate to do so to end the government shutdown.
Republican Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina pulled even with his Democratic challenger, and in Michigan, the Republican candidate for a U.S. Senate seat cut into the Democratic incumbent's lead,
Trump urged Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) last week to eliminate the filibuster — a procedure that allows senators to delay or block votes on legislation by extending debate. Trump initially said he wanted GOP senators to get rid of the procedure to reopen the government.
Senate leaders hold their weekly press conference as the government shutdown ties for longest in history.