Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A US Capitol Police officer stands guard in the empty hallway outside the darkened Senate Floor on Friday. - Jonathan ...

Donald Trump—juggling a war that shows more signs every week of dragging on far longer than he imagined, a nation of enraged air travelers, and a day of protests against him that was the largest of ...

Republican President Donald Trump, instead of calling on Congress to negotiate over its budget impasse, has instead called on GOP senators to end the filibuster rule to bypass a Democratic roadblock ...

The ongoing federal government shutdown is set to become the longest in U.S. history, impacting federal workers and millions of Americans. Republicans and Democrats are deadlocked over issues ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is now calling for Senate Republicans to do away with the filibuster, a congressional rule meant to keep the balance of power in the upper chamber, because it is ...

TPM Reader TB dropped me a note this afternoon about today’s second post. He liked it. Then he wrote this: “You’ve pretty much conclusively won the argument on SCOTUS reform, starting with immediate ...

Proponents of the “talking filibuster” quagmire like to point to the success of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as evidence that important things can be done by breaking a talking filibuster. After all, ...

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 ...

Amid the U.S. government shutdown, which has stretched into its second month, President Donald Trump is ramping up the pressure on Republicans to abolish the Senate filibuster—an action commonly known ...