President Donald Trump is pushing Congress to end the filibuster, but Republican members of the Senate say such a move would be shortsighted. On Thursday, Trump posted via Truth Social about his recent trip to Asia,

Republicans on Friday showed little sign of heeding President Donald Trump's latest call to jettison the Senate filibuster to bypass a Democratic roadblock to reopening the government.

Back from a week abroad, President Donald Trump threw himself into the shutdown debate, calling on the Senate to scrap the filibuster and reopen the government, an idea swiftly rejected Friday by Republican leaders who have long opposed such a move.

Republicans and Democrats remained at a stalemate on the government shutdown over the weekend as it headed into its sixth week, with food aid potentially delayed or suspended for millions of Americans and President Donald Trump pushing GOP leaders to change Senate rules to end it.

Ending the long-standing rule would allow Republicans in the Senate to pass a funding bill without Democratic support.

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to continue paying for food stamps during the federal shutdown. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, aids roughly 42 million people and was set to run out of funds on Saturday without intervention.

Donald Trump on Saturday issued a warning to Republicans, telling them not to be "weak and stupid" and pushing them to make sure Democrats "never again have the chance" to govern the nation. Trump, who earlier in the day accused yet another late-night TV host of "probably illegal" criticisms,