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Friday, November 7, 2025

Trump teases plan to help GOP ‘never lose another election’

President Donald Trump on Friday urged Senate Republicans to scrap the upper chamber’s longstanding supermajority requirement for most legislation in order to permit the Republican-led Congress to enact a legislative wish list meant to lock Democrats out of power indefinitely.

Speaking in the Cabinet Room during a bilateral meeting and lunch with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban — a leader who has spent years eroding his country’s democratic guardrails to make it nearly impossible for his Fidesz to lose power — Trump was deep into a meandering soliloquy about how Democratic victories in this week’s off-year elections were the result of “lying” about his record on “affordability” when he was pressed on how to end what is now the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.

He told the assembled press that the “way to do it” was for Senate Republicans to exercise the so-called “nuclear option” to ditch the upper chamber’s filibuster rule, a centuries-old quirk in parliamentary procedure that allows the minority party to block legislation by preventing up-or-down votes on bills that can’t garner support from at least 60 senators.

“I am totally in favor of terminating the filibuster, and we would be back to work within 10 minutes after that vote took place, and lots of other good things would happen. And it doesn't make any sense that a Republican would not want to do that,” he said.

Trump then rattled off a list of partisan proposals he would push for Congress to enact once the Senate eliminated the ability of the minority party to block legislation, including a national voter identification mandate and a ban on postal balloting, which he has falsely claimed is “corrupt” and rife with “fraud.”

Sending those bills to his desk, Trump said, would mean Republicans “will never lose” next year’s midterms, which current polling shows his party poised to lose its House majority and possibly control of the Senate.

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By Andrew Feinberg

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