BY TYLER DURDEN
WEDNESDAY, OCT 22, 2025 – 10:45 AM
As Democrats continue to dig in their heels over Obamacare, Senate Republicans are now considering changing the filibuster’s rules to end the shutdown.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune , June 24, 2025. (Shawn Thew/EPA/Shutterstock)
"Nobody talked about filibuster two weeks ago. Now that we see that the Democrats are just not going to agree to anything, then that’s probably a viable option," Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) told The Hill. "I don’t know the answer to this. I don’t think anybody does because they’re not going to give; we’re not going to give. So it’s going to be a stalemate, and the loser is going to be the American people."
Tuberville notably defended keeping the filibuster after Republicans won control of the Senate in last year’s election, while other GOP senators are predicting that President Trump will start pressuring Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) to change the Senate rules if the shutdown continues into next month – a move Thune has explicitly said he opposes.
Source
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/senate-gop-mull-filibuster-reform-end-shutdown