WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Republicans on Wednesday rebuffed President Donald Trump’s call to end the longest government shutdown in history by terminating the filibuster, a rare rejection of the demands of a president who has mainly met with fealty by the Republican-controlled Congress.

On the shutdown’s 36th day, Trump hosted Republicans at a White House breakfast where he implored them to jettison the Senate’s longstanding institutional hallmark later in the day, so that they could pass a bill to fund federal agencies through November 21 and then move quickly to partisan election reforms including a voter ID law and a ban on mail-in ballots.

“We have to get the country open. And the way we’re going to do it this afternoon is to terminate the filibuster,” Trump told the senators. “It’s t

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