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While President Donald Trump is pressuring Senate Republicans to nix the filibuster, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said during an interview on Fox News Radio’s “Guy Benson Show” that “there just simply aren’t the votes” to eliminate the “60-vote threshold.”

While Republicans hold the majority in the upper chamber, the procedural hurtle serves as a check on the majority-party’s power due to the threshold required to advance matters towards a vote in the chamber.

Thune suggested that there is likely no more than 10 to 12 of the 53 GOP senators who would vote to eliminate the filibuster.

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