{"id":23826,"date":"2025-10-31T10:44:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T10:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/23826\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T10:44:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T10:44:15","slug":"trump-demands-senate-republicans-invoke-nuclear-option-to-end-government-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/23826\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump demands Senate Republicans invoke \u2018nuclear option\u2019 to end government shutdown\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Trump called on Republicans Thursday to invoke the so-called \u201cnuclear option\u201d and change Senate rules to allow legislation to end the 30-day-long government shutdown<\/a> to pass with a simple majority vote.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is now time for the Republicans to play their \u2018TRUMP CARD,\u2019 and go for what is called the Nuclear Option \u2014 Get rid of the Filibuster, and get rid of it, NOW!\u201d the president wrote in a lengthy Truth Social post<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Trump explained that during his whirlwind Asia trip \u201cthe 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?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader John Thune shake hands at a lunch in the Rose Garden of the White House on Oct. 21, 2025. ZUMAPRESS.com<\/p>\n

The president said he pondered the question on his long flight back from South Korea<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact is, in flying back, I thought a great deal about that question, WHY?\u201d Trump wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cMajority 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,\u201d he argued. \u201cIt is a sick form of the now \u2018legendary\u2019 Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) that only comes from losing too much.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump insisted that Democrat demands to reopen the government \u201cwill hurt American citizens, and Republicans will not let it happen.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 60-vote threshold<\/a> needed for legislation to clear the upper chamber has prevented Republicans from advancing a short-term continuing resolution to fund the federal government at pre-shutdown levels.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sen. John Thune and Senate Republican leadership speak at a press conference outside the White House on Oct. 21, 2025. ZUMAPRESS.com<\/p>\n

All but three Senate Democrats have voted down the Trump-backed proposal more than a dozen times since federal funding lapsed on Oct. 1.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Republicans need five more votes to push the bill forward.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cJust 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,\u201d Trump wrote, referring to a previous effort to undo the legislative filibuster. \u201cNever have the Democrats fought so hard to do something because they knew the tremendous strength that terminating the Filibuster would give them.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One during his return flight to the United States on Oct. 30, 2025. Getty Images<\/p>\n

The president suggested Senate Democrats would brazenly move to \u201csubstantially 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\u201d if they could pass legislation via a simple majority.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, now WE are in power, and if we did what we should be doing, it would IMMEDIATELY end this ridiculous, Country destroying \u2018SHUT DOWN,\u2019\u201d Trump asserted.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On top of ending the shutdown, Trump pointed to \u201call of the other things we would get\u201d without the legislative filibuster, \u201csuch as the best Judges, the best US Attorneys, the best of everything.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201c[T]his 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\u2026.\u201d he continued.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Trump insisted that Democrat demands to reopen the government \u201cwill hurt American citizens, and Republicans will not let it happen.\u201d\u00a0 Truth Social \/ @realDonaldTrump\/<\/p>\n

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson speaks at a press conference with House Republican leaders at the Capitol on Oct. 30, 2025. REUTERS<\/p>\n

In a separate Truth Social post, Trump added: \u201cBECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT THE DEMOCRATS HAVE GONE STONE COLD \u2018CRAZY,\u2019 THE CHOICE IS CLEAR \u2014 INITIATE THE \u2018NUCLEAR OPTION,\u2019 GET RID OF THE FILIBUSTER AND, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump hold baskets as they hand-out treats during a Halloween event at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., October 30, 2025. REUTERS<\/p>\n

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) pledged to preserve the filibuster<\/a> in January, when Republicans took control of the upper chamber.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, he dismissed the idea<\/a> of using the nuclear option to end the shutdown and said he hasn\u2019t had conversations about it with the White House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Trump called on Republicans Thursday to invoke the so-called \u201cnuclear option\u201d and change Senate rules to allow…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[858,153,15469,2564,13768,9,11,10,87,855,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-23826","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-congress","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-filibuster","11":"tag-government-shutdown","12":"tag-john-thune","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-headlines","15":"tag-new-york-news","16":"tag-politics","17":"tag-senate","18":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}