Frustrated by Senate Republicans’ inability to advance legislation, President Trump on Tuesday called for an end to the 60-vote threshold that is needed to break a filibuster in the upper chamber.

“We have to get rid of what’s called the filibuster rule. We have to,” Trump told the thousands of supporters who braved the heat to attend his rally in Phoenix. “If we don’t, the Republicans will never get anything passed.”

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