Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s position against eliminating the Senate filibuster has not changed, a spokesperson told ABC News Friday, after Trump on Thursday called on Republicans to go "nuclear" and eliminate the filibuster to pass the Republican funding bill and reopen the government.

The top two Republicans in Congress are showing no interest in taking the unprecedented step of ending the legislative filibuster, just hours after President Donald Trump made a fresh demand for the Senate to do so to end the government shutdown.

In a pair of late-night posts, Trump told Senate Republicans to use the "nuclear option" to eliminate the 60-vote threshold and pass a government funding bill without Democrats.

Senate Republicans are resisting his demand to end the long-standing filibuster rule in order to end the government shutdown.

President Donald Trump is calling on the Senate to scrap the filibuster. That's so the Republican majority can bypass Democrats in the Senate and reopen the federal government.

Senate Democrats who had pushed vociferously for the filibuster’s elimination just four years ago are using it to try to force a Republican compromise on President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill”

President Donald Trump’s MAGA supporters appeared split after he called on the Senate to scrap the filibuster to clear the way for the end of the federal government shutdown. "THE CHOICE IS CLEAR—INITIATE THE ‘NUCLEAR OPTION,’ GET RID OF THE FILIBUSTER," Trump wrote on his Truth Social site on Thursday.