President Donald Trump beseeched Republican Senators to end the filibuster Wednesday, hot on the heels of significant losses in Tuesday night’s 2025 elections .

Trump has spent the last week-plus pressuring Republicans to abolish the filibuster to end the ongoing government shutdown, now the longest in American history, through a simple majority vote in the Senate.

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The president opened his remarks by conceding that, though Democrats were expected to win the major races on Tuesday, the results were not “good for Republicans.”

“I’m not sure it was good for anybody. But we had an

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