Senate Majority Leader John Thune's (R-S.D.) support for keeping the 60-vote threshold for passing legislation through the Senate remains “unchanged,” according to a spokesperson, despite President Trump’s demand that the GOP leader trigger the “nuclear option” and eliminate the filibuster.

“Leader Thune’s position on the importance of the legislative filibuster is unchanged,” a spokesman for Thune told NewsNation, The Hill's partner station.

Thune last week dismissed the possibility of nuking the filibuster as a “bad idea” and several members of his leadership team have ruled it out as a pathway to circumventing Democratic opposition to a House-passed clean continuing resolution to reopen government.

Thune pledged to preserve the filibuster when he ran against Sens. John Cornyn........

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