--- title: Trump Pushes Republicans to End Filibuster, as Government Shutdown Becomes Longest in U.S. History | TIME description: 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 as the “nuclear option” when it comes to changing Senate rules. This latest plea comes after the President's recent claim that Democrats “would do it immediately, as soon as they get a chance.” As such, he's imploring that the Republican Party, which currently holds the Senate majority, does it first. canonical: https://time.com/video/E5QwQk2L/ og:title: Trump Pushes Republicans to End Filibuster, as Government Shutdown Becomes Longest in U.S. History og:description: 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 as the “nuclear option” when it comes to changing Senate rules. 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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Trump Pushes Republicans to End Filibuster, as Government Shutdown Becomes Longest in U.S. History [Watch (HLS stream): Trump Pushes Republicans to End Filibuster, as Government Shutdown Becomes Longest in U.S. History](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/E5QwQk2L.m3u8) (2:42)  _Published 2025-11-05. 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 as the “nuclear option” when it comes to changing Senate rules. This latest plea comes after the President's recent claim that Democrats “would do it immediately, as soon as they get a chance.” As such, he's imploring that the Republican Party, which currently holds the Senate majority, does it first._ --- Nov 5, 2025 7:25 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [End of Longest Ever Government Shutdown in Sight, as House Prepares to Send Bill to Trump](/video/79cyhKzc/) ### End of Longest Ever Government Shutdown in Sight, as House Prepares to Send Bill to Trump [House Leaders Continue Blame Game as Trump Pushes to Scrap the Filibuster to End the Shutdown](/video/VTKDsUkD/) ### House Leaders Continue Blame Game as Trump Pushes to Scrap the Filibuster to End the Shutdown [Republican and Democratic Lawmakers React to Government Shutdown as Blame Game Ensues](/video/pmSknhIm/) ### Republican and Democratic Lawmakers React to Government Shutdown as Blame Game Ensues --- ## Transcript We are in the midst of a disastrous Democrat created government shutdown, and it is Democrat created. But I don't think they're getting really the blame that they should. That's now officially the longest shutdown in American history. The Democrat radicals and the Senate have shown zero interest in reopening the government, and I don't think they'll act so soon. A lot of people disagree. I've been saying for the last 30 days we've had 4 or 5 different points. Yes, sir. They're going to get it right now. We should have it done in a day. I've heard that about four times. I heard it after Kings. You know, they said I was a king and I heard it after Kings. I heard it after a couple of other moments in time. And I said, no, I don't believe so. And now I heard it's after the election. I don't believe so. I think they will. I think they're kamikaze pilots. I just got back from Japan. I talked about the kamikaze pilots. I think these guys are kamikaze. They'll take down the country if they have to. But countless public servants are now not being paid, and the air traffic control system is under increasing strain. We must get the government back open soon and really immediately. We have to get it open. We have the hottest economy we've ever had and it's affecting the stock market now a little bit. These are not going to be productive people. These are going to be anti productive people. And we can be all have big hearts. I have a bigger heart than anybody. But we can't let that happen. It's time for Republicans to do what they have to do, and that's terminate the filibuster. It's the only way you can do it. And if you don't terminate the filibuster, you'll be in bad shape. We won't pass any legislation. There'll be no legislation passed for three and a quarter. We have three and a quarter years. That's a long time. But the biggest thing is the filibuster. We have to get the country going. We will pass legislation at levels you've never seen before, and it will be impossible to beat us. By the way, if they do, they're going to do it anyway, and they are going to immediately do the filibuster. And when they do the filibuster, they're going to pack the court. They want five, at least five justices. Now they I hear it's up to five. I actually heard up to seven and up to nine. Okay. They want new judges. They want to pack the court and they will do it in the first day, maybe the week. If I thought that they weren't going to pass the filibuster, I wouldn't even bring it up. They're going to pass it within the first hour if they take power, and it's more likely that they take power if we don't do it, because we're not going to be passing any legislation, they're not going to approve anything. We're going to go three and a quarter years. There won't be one bill that we're going to pass, because the easiest thing to pass is exactly right now what they won't pass and they'll do that and they'll wreak havoc. But let's assume they get it. They're doing it anyway, so it wouldn't matter. 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