Republican congressional leaders held firm Friday in their support for the Senate’s legislative filibuster, resisting President Donald Trump’s latest call for Republicans to repeal the 60-vote threshold to reopen the government and advance his agenda with only a simple majority.
“Leader Thune’s position on the importance of the legislative filibuster is unchanged,” Ryan Wrasse, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD), said in a statement.
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