President Donald Trump is lashing out at members of his own party and once again demanding changes to Senate rules that would allow the upper chamber to approve new restrictions on voting ahead of midterm elections that could cost Republicans control of the House, Senate — or both.
In a Thursday morning rant on Truth Social, he demanded Republican senators employ a parliamentary maneuver that would let them push any legislation through the Senate by ending the chamber’s 60-vote supermajority requirement for most bills and use that new power to end a weeks-long impasse over funding for the Department of Homeland Security instead of negotiating with Democrats over whether immigration agents can enter private homes without warrants.
