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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: House Leaders Continue Blame Game as Trump Pushes to Scrap the Filibuster to End the Shutdown [Watch (HLS stream): House Leaders Continue Blame Game as Trump Pushes to Scrap the Filibuster to End the Shutdown](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/VTKDsUkD.m3u8) (3:08)  _Published 2025-11-03. President Donald Trump is calling on Republicans to get rid of the Senate filibuster to end the government shutdown—but many in his party are pushing back._ --- Nov 3, 2025 9:11 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 [Trump Pushes Republicans to End Filibuster, as Government Shutdown Becomes Longest in U.S. History](/video/E5QwQk2L/) ### Trump Pushes Republicans to End Filibuster, as Government Shutdown Becomes Longest in U.S. History [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 I talked to the talk to the president multiple times over the weekend. I mentioned and of course, the filibuster came up. This is a Senate matter. It has nothing to do with the House. Everybody wants to know what my opinion is. My opinion is irrelevant. Um, I understand desperate times call for desperate measures. Uh, I also understand that traditionally, we've seen that as an important safeguard. I mean, obviously, I shared my thoughts with the president on that. As much as I have wanted to blow up the filibuster sometime as a House member when we were not getting what we wanted on our agenda, I hear my Senate Republican colleagues, some of the most conservative people in in Congress who say it's an important safeguard, it's it's prevents us. It holds us back from the Democrats worst impulses. This is a very important matter. It's something that we're given all of our attention to. Our leaders will go and meet on on the calendar. Right now, we're watch it every day. But the simplest way to get all these issues resolved health care, everything else to get it all finished up for the year is for them to reopen the government and make sure people are not hurting. Instead of Democrats over here playing political games to cover their own backside, I hope the election tomorrow is a change, a sea change in all this. I hope that after everybody votes and they go in their room and they make the calculation that, well, maybe, maybe we won't have to hold that line anymore. Maybe, maybe they won't punish us. Maybe we won't affect turnout. And in our states, in these elections, maybe after tomorrow they'll come to their common senses again and and do the right thing. We certainly pray that is true. The urgency, as far as I'm concerned, for Democrats, is that we need to reopen the government. We need to find a bipartisan path forward to enacting a spending agreement that actually makes life better for the American people. But we also have to decisively address the Republican health care crisis. In a year where Republicans have enacted the largest cut to Medicaid in American history, almost $1 trillion ripped away from more than 14 million Americans, hospitals, nursing homes and community based health centers are closing all across the country because of Republican policies and what they did in their one big ugly bill. Medicare is confronting a possible $536 billion cut this year. If Congress doesn't act by the end of December because of the one big ugly bill. And then on top of all of that, as we find ourselves now in open enrollment, tens of millions of Americans are experiencing dramatically increased premiums, co-pays and deductibles because Republicans are unwilling to find a dime to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits for working class, middle class, and everyday Americans. That's why Democrats have been in this fight to make sure that we are delivering for the American people, lowering the high cost of living and addressing the Republican health care crisis. And it should be done with urgency now. But Mike Johnson. And Republicans on Capitol Hill who don't work for the American people, they just work for Donald Trump. He's their boss, have canceled votes now for six consecutive weeks. They're nowhere to be found. They're missing in action. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"House Leaders Continue Blame Game as Trump Pushes to Scrap the Filibuster to End the Shutdown","description":"President Donald Trump is calling on Republicans to get rid of the Senate filibuster to end the government shutdown—but many in his party are pushing back. 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