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Trump urges GOP to ‘end the shutdown’ by going nuclear on Senate filibuster

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President Donald Trump on Thursday called for Republicans to end the filibuster in order to end the month-long government shutdown.In a late-night Truth Social post, Trump argued that Democrats had sought to eliminate the Senate procedure when they had control of both chambers of Congress and the White House during the Biden administration, but then-Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema helped block the effort.Trump suggested using the "nuclear option," following his return to the U.S. after his trip to Asia."The one question that kept coming up, however, was how did the Democrats SHUT DOWN the...

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