President Donald Trump has called for the Senate, where Republicans have a slim majority over Democrats, to scrap the filibuster custom so as to end the weekslong federal government shutdown. "It is now time for the Republicans to play their ‘TRUMP CARD,’ and go for what is called the Nuclear Option—Get rid of the Filibuster, and get rid of it, NOW," Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social on Thursday. The shutdown began on October 1, after Democrats and Republicans in the Senate

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