Senate Majority Leader John Thune and his leadership team know that another Democrat-fueled government shutdown is fast approaching on Jan. 30, 2026.

Americans have never seen anything like the deplorable hostage taking tactics being employed by the minority party in the Senate before, and they must be confronted. It’s time to follow President Donald Trump’s lead and recognize that there must be a strategy to reform archaic filibuster rules to save America from the radical left without delay.

When the Founding Fathers designed the United States Senate in 1787 and when Senators first established the cloture rule in 1917, no one could have imagined the situation that the upper chamber of Congress finds itself in today. In a grotesque display that is patently un-American, far left-wing Democrats in the Senate have chosen not to participate in the legislative process out of pure hatred for Trump and his America First agenda. Their lunacy is driven by a crazed and well-funded base of supporters who are hellbent on transforming our beloved constitutional republic into the world’s next failed socialist state. (RELATED: Trump’s Call To Axe Filibuster Likely Dead On Arrival In Senate)

Look no further than the recent record-setting 43-day government shutdown that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer orchestrated simply to make people suffer and demonstrate that he’s sufficiently stricken with the incurable condition known as Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS).  The truth is that the Schumer Shutdown was based on a lie and was always going to result in an embarrassing defeat for the rudderless Democrats.

The left’s central talking point — that Republicans control the U.S. House, U.S Senate, and the White House and therefore the shutdown is their fault — was an insult to millions of Americans who smelled a rat from the get-go. Folks know full-well........

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