After the government had been shut down for nearly a month, a conspicuously quiet President Donald Trump finally weighed in with a prescription for how to end it.
Republican congressional leaders are probably wishing he hadn’t.
Trump late Thursday night urged Republicans to end the shutdown by invoking the so-called “nuclear option” — that is, getting rid of the filibuster and 60-vote threshold in the Senate. This would allow Republicans to pass things on party-line votes in the GOP-controlled Senate.
“BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT THE DEMOCRATS HAVE GONE STONE COLD ‘CRAZY,’ THE CHOICE IS CLEAR — INITIATE THE ‘NUCLEAR OPTION,’ GET RID OF THE FILIBUSTER AND, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
That Trump would call for this is not terribly surprising; he has spent years occasionally urging Republican leaders to scrap the filibuster.
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