The following article by Aaron Blake was posted on the Washington Post website May 2, 2017:
Update: Trump is indeed going ahead with a push to get rid of the filibuster, tweeting Tuesday morning that the GOP should consider it if it can’t get 60 votes to overcome the filibuster. He apparently even threatened to allow a government shutdown to prove his point.
The reason for the plan negotiated between the Republicans and Democrats is that we need 60 votes in the Senate which are not there! We….
either elect more Republican Senators in 2018 or change the rules now to 51%. Our country needs a good “shutdown” in September to fix mess!
The below post is from Saturday, after he first hinted at this in a Fox News interview: Continue reading “Frustrated by failures, Trump now demands more power”