'There's nothing that could move me': 7 GOP senators give Trump a 'hard no' on new demand

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Raw Story

November 6, 2025 7:22AM ET


President Donald Trump's initial response to Republicans' lopsided losses in multiple elections on Tuesday night was to call on Republicans to end a longstanding practice in the U.S. Senate in order to ram through his policies with minimal opposition. But multiple senators are already pouring cold water on the proposal.

In a series of Truth Social posts Tuesday night, Trump demanded that Senate Republicans "TERMINATE THE FILIBUSTER" and make it possible for the GOP to pass restrictions on voting, ban mail-in ballots and impose a national voter ID law, among other policies. As long as the filibuster remains in place, those policies would need 60 votes in the Senate in order to clear the upper chamber of Congress (Republicans currently have just 53 seats).

However, Semafor correspondent Burgess Everett reported Wednesday that scrapping the filibuster isn't likely anytime soon, according to multiple Republican senators. Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), John Neely Kennedy (R-La.), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) all communicated to Everett that the idea was a non-starter. "There’s nothing that could move me," Tillis said.

Additionally, Bloomberg congressional reporter Steve Dennis tweeted that Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who was the top Senate Republican for more than a decade, stopped him in a Capitol hallway and said of abolishing the filibuster: "We're not going to do that."

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/there-s-nothing-that-could-move-me-7-gop-senators-give-trump-a-hard-no-on-new-demand/

[Lovie777]

1. We shall see.......................

[yardwork]

2. Tillis will go where the lobbying winds blow.

He's a lame duck senator who cares only about his lucrative next gig.

[33taw]

3. They won't eliminate the filibuster.

They know if the remove the ACA subsidies they’re screwed.

[live love laugh]

15. They know it's staying and this "opposition" is as fake as MT Green's.

[durablend]

4. DJT: "Shame if anything happened to your loved ones"

[Ol Janx Spirit]

5. Emperor Tangerine says he will make their life a "living hell," while they say...

..."we're not going to do that."

[lark]

6. Wow, Repugs showing the presence of a hint of spine - nothing definitive yet, but this is a good sign.

They are usually just total yes men (women) and abdicate their responsibility to the people and the constitution.

[BumRushDaShow]

10. It's a "concept" of a "blueprint" for a spine.

It's still all on paper though and can be edited.

[PatSeg]

12. Of course, they know that

Democrats are going to regain power in the near future and they don't want them to have a simple majority in the house and senate. Also, I think they realize that Trump won't be around too much longer and they need to survive. I think many of them know what is in the Epstein files and are starting to distance themselves before the files get released to the public.

[Gore1FL]

7. Conservatives have abused the Filibuster forever.

They don't want to give up their favorite tool to derail things the majority of the country wants.

[House of Roberts]

8. Can anyone explain why they can't pass a budget bill with 50 votes + Vance?

I was always under the impression budget bills can't be filibustered. The Bush tax cuts passed with 50 votes plus Dick Cheney.

[WestMichRad]

9. Current Senate rules allow only one fiscal bill per year...

to be passed by simple majority, and they shot their wad with the Enormously Gawdawful Bill a few months ago. Perhaps they could do it when 2026 rolls around.

[BumRushDaShow]

11. Those reconciliation bills are per FY, so the new FY period started Oct. 1 of 2025

The process is here - The Reconciliation Process: Frequently Asked Questions.

The "types" are -

"Revenue" (taxes)

"Debt" (debt ceiling)

"Outlays" (spending)

They usually pair at least 2 as a combo and can also do a combo of all 3 (the "BBB" used all 3).

They were planning on doing another huge reconciliation package this fall, with the assumption that Democrats would "cave" and pass an extended C.R. But when that didn't happen, this current shutdown has pretty much torpedoed their arrogant greed and sloth for now.

[House of Roberts]

14. Sounds like to me they could pass whatever they want,

as long as it 'sunsets' in ten years like all the other richfuck tax cut budget bills in the past.

[BumRushDaShow]

16. "Sounds like to me they could pass whatever they want"

Reconciliation bills are framework/outlines/blueprints for spending over the 10 years. BUT there are restrictions set out by the "Byrd Rule", that forbids "policy riders" on that type of legislation.

You might have seen some of the LBN OPs on all the "strikes" that the Parliamentarian did when they were working on that Barbaric Bullshit Bill. I.e. -

Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' heads for showdown with Senate parliamentarian
Senate parliamentarian knocks pieces out of Trump's megabill
Senate GOP's plan to push food aid costs onto states axed from megabill
Senate parliamentarian rejects GOP attempt to authorize states to conduct immigration enforcement
Senate parliamentarian rejects offshore oil, gas drilling provisions in GOP megabill
Parliamentarian rejects GOP attempt to impose fees on asylum-seekers
Senate rulekeeper deals blows to revised 'Big, beautiful bill'

[WestMichRad]

17. Thanks for the clarifications on the Reconciliation process

[BumRushDaShow]

19. Former Senator (obviously now-deceased) Robert C. Byrd (D-WV)

has yet to have his stipulations for what can go into a Reconciliation package, removed from use as part of that process! It shows how much they valued that filibuster Rule (and he was the master of the "talking filibuster" (done during the Senate's "Morning Business" period), with his periodic, series of hours-long tales of Hannibal and the Roman Empire and their relationship to the current)

From 1993 -

[Bobstandard]

13. It's a list of the most notorious flip-floppers

None of those folks can be depended on to keep their word. Promise them the right thing and they each fold.

[Attilatheblond]

18. Poor lil pResident Felon, he doesn't have blackmail material on ALL the GOP office holders and it makes him sad

Some senators aren't as stupid as others.

[pecosbob]

20. Eliminating the filibuster would reduce the Senate's ability to cock-block the will of the people.

Just as the founding slavemasters intended.