"Terminate the filibuster, not just for the shutdown, but for everything else," Trump wrote Nov. 2 on Truth Social. He said Democrats would end the filibuster "immediately, as soon as they get the chance. Our doing it will not give them the chance."

The Senate failed for the 14th time to advance a bill to end the government shutdown, now tied for the longest in U.S. history. Follow live updates here.

U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds, who is running to be Florida's next governor, called for U.S. Senate GOP leaders to end the filibuster.

WASHINGTON – The ongoing government shutdown is about to become the longest in United States history, even as millions of Americans feel the increasingly painful consequences of the crisis on their daily lives.

President Trump let loose a volley of social-media posts that urged voters to support Republican candidates and demanded Senate Republicans terminate the filibuster to reopen the government and help his party’s chances in future elections.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) says the votes “aren’t there” to eliminate the filibuster to reopen the federal government and pushed back on President Trump’s prediction that the

President Donald Trump has demanded that Congressional Republicans use the “nuclear option” to unilaterally eliminate the filibuster and end the ongoing government shutdown.