Government shutdown live updates as Senate talks continue after Democrats' election victories

[ad_1] Senate Republicans provided blended views on ending the filibuster after Mr. Trump urged them to cast off the long-held Senate rule at a breakfast assembly earlier within the day.

Sen. Invoice Cassidy of Louisiana advised CBS Information the president "offers you a large number to consider."

"However proper now, I believe it will let Chuck Schumer off the hook," Cassidy added of ending the filibuster. "He is being extremely irresponsible maintaining the federal government shut down."

Sen. John Cornyn of Texas advised reporters he was open to adjustments, suggesting a attainable carveout of filibuster guidelines. He mentioned the portion that "cries out for change is the actual fact we have not been in a position to do common appropriations for some time."

"And now, with the form of Schumer shutdown, having a willful minority be capable to shut down the federal government anytime they need to, clearly, we won't tolerate that," Cornyn mentioned. "So I believe that requires some adjustments, and appropriations, together with CRs, could also be a superb candidate for that."

Sen. Jim Banks, an Indiana Republican, mentioned in a video on X that "it is time to reopen the federal government, get again to work, and do all the issues that the American folks elected us to do."

"Let's do what it takes, whether or not that is altering the filibuster guidelines within the Senate," Banks mentioned. "No matter it takes."

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia advised reporters she nonetheless opposes disposing of the filibuster. Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma mentioned "I am in the identical spot I've at all times been on the filibuster — that ought to not change." And Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana likewise mentioned his place hasn't modified.

"The position of the senator is not only to advance good concepts. The position of the senator is to kill unhealthy concepts," Kennedy mentioned. "And whenever you're within the minority, we're not now, however we might be sometime, it is essential to have a filibuster. We killed a whole lot of President Biden's goofy concepts by way of the filibuster, and sometime the shoe shall be on the opposite foot."