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Raise your hand if you thought the filibuster would be a top issue in the most important Republican Senate primary of this year’s midterm elections. Congratulations if that was your guess. The ...

The one Republican elected official who has a serious and workable plan to end the government shutdown is, surprisingly enough, Donald Trump. The president’s idea is for the Senate to change its rules ...

The ongoing federal government shutdown is poised to break the record for longest shutdown in the history of the United States, leaving hundreds of thousands of federal workers furloughed or forced to ...

The word “filibuster,” which derives from a Dutch term for pirates and plunderers, somehow came to describe those who disrupt legislative business. The practice is much older — Cato the Younger was ...

Doing Nothing about ‘Cooked’ FDA Safety Standards Isn’t an Option Audio By Carbonatix Proponents of the “talking filibuster” quagmire like to point to the success of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. President Donald Trump has said that he will be the last Republican ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: A version of this story was first published in 2021, when Democrats were trying to end the filibuster. It was completely predictable that President Donald Trump would call on Senate ...

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One en route to the White House on Nov. 2, 2025. Credit - Samuel Corum—Getty Images Amid the U.S. government shutdown, which has stretched ...