The office of Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said Friday that his support for the filibuster remains “unchanged” despite President Donald Trump’s call to eliminate it, The Hill reported.
Trump is calling for Thune to use the “nuclear option” — eliminating the Senate filibuster rule to lower the chamber’s 60-vote threshold — to reopen the government.
“Leader Thune’s position on the importance of the legislative filibuster is unchanged,” a spokesman for Thune told NewsNation.
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