President Donald Trump on Thursday urged congressional Republicans to end the government shutdown by eliminating the Senate filibuster. He said it has to be done because Democrats are crazy.
Republicans literally asked for nothing, just the already enormous funding Biden put through. Yet, Democrats wanted to shut government down as leverage, regardless of the pain it would cause Americans, as they phrased it.
The President wrote, “It is now time for the Republicans to play their ‘TRUMP CARD,’ and go for what is called the Nuclear Option — Get rid of the Filibuster, and get rid of it, NOW!” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.
“Majority Leader John Thune, and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, are doing a GREAT job, but the Democrats are Crazed Lunatics that have lost all sense of WISDOM and REALITY. It is a sick form of the now “legendary” Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) that only comes from losing too much.”
Trump, back from his highly successful trade deals, added in his long post:
They want Trillions of Dollars to be taken from our Healthcare System and given to others, who are not deserving — People who have come into our Country illegally, many from prisons and mental institutions. This will hurt American citizens, and Republicans will not let it happen.
It is now time for the Republicans to play their “TRUMP CARD,” and go for what is called the Nuclear Option — Get rid of the Filibuster, and get rid of it, NOW! Just a short while ago, the Democrats, while in power, fought for three years to do this, but were unable to pull it off because of Senators Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona. Never have the Democrats fought so hard to do something because they knew the tremendous strength that terminating the Filibuster would give them.
President Trump is right about that.
Democrats no longer have any senators who would stand up for the filibuster. And thanks to the efforts of the communists in the Squad and Bernie Sanders, Democrats are moving further and further to the left. Republicans might as well break the filibuster for people who need to get paid or have their layoffs reversed. It’s a shame to break it, but it’s going to happen anyway. It’s only a matter of time. Democrats are too far left to appreciate a filibuster.
As President Trump said in his post:
They want to substantially expand (PACK!) the United States Supreme Court, make Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico States (Thereby automatically picking up 4 Senate seats, many House seats, and at least 8 Electoral Votes!), and many other highly destructive things. …
The directive immediately ratcheted up the pressure on Republican leaders. They have been adamantly opposed eliminating the 60-vote threshold for passing legislation as a way to end the shutdown.
The Unique Rule
The filibuster rule is unique to the Senate, and it gives the minority the power to block a bill from coming up for a vote as long as at least 41 senators oppose it. Since one party rarely wins more than 60 seats, proponents have argued that the filibuster encourages compromise and makes it more difficult to enact massive partisan reforms.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune earlier this month ruled out changing the Senate rules to end the shutdown, calling the filibuster “something that’s been a bulwark against a lot of really bad things happening with the country.”
Trump added in his post:
Well, now WE are in power, and if we did what we should be doing, it would IMMEDIATELY end this ridiculous, Country destroying “SHUT DOWN.” If the Democrats ever came back into power, which would be made easier for them if the Republicans are not using the Great Strength and Policies made available to us by ending the Filibuster, the Democrats will exercise their rights, and it will be done in the first day they take office, regardless of whether or not we do it.
In addition to all of the other things we would get, such as the best Judges, the best U.S. Attorneys, the best of everything, this was a concept from years ago of then President Barack Hussein Obama and former Majority Leader Harry Reid in order to take advantage of the Republicans. Now I want to do it in order to take advantage of the Democrats….
Additionally, critical food aid for tens of millions of Americans is slated to end over the weekend. The White House on Thursday also sought to highlight the stress that the shutdown is putting on air traffic controllers by convening a roundtable of airline industry representatives and union leaders. Federal workers are going to food banks. That’s so wrong.
President Trump is going to pay the military again, but he won’t be able to keep it up. And he can’t do it for all the other workers who are hurting. Major unions are now irate and demanding Democrats open the government.
The shutdown is insane.
The article was updated after publication to include more of President Trump’s Truth Social post because we noticed the media wasn’t reporting most of his comments.
This is how President Trump began his post:
I just got back from Asia where I met the Leaders of many Countries, including China, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, and others. It was a Great Honor to meet them but, more particularly, to see that America is respected again — RESPECTED LIKE NEVER BEFORE! Great Trade Deals were made, Long Term relationships now exist, and money is pouring into our Country because of Tariffs and, frankly, the Landslide Results of the 2024 Presidential Election. The one question that kept coming up, however, was how did the Democrats SHUT DOWN the United States of America, and why did the powerful Republicans allow them to do it? The fact is, in flying back, I thought a great deal about that question, WHY?
Thune has been quiet most of the time on this, he and his mentor Mitch prefer to concede to the left nearly every time. That is what the record shows. Beware of Thune. He may now feverishly try to make a deal. Changing the deal would cause disorder in the house. Thune is pure status quo. I like him being… Read more »
We’re winning. Doesn’t the president see that the lying media, the unions, etc. have started to call out the dems for not passing a CR? Stand strong! Don’t make it easy for the Democrats to use the nuclear option when they are back in
power (which hopefully never happens). They caused the shutdown. Keep blaming them until they cave.
SOMEONE has to do it. The Dems’ game is costing American too much. END IT!