PALM BEACH, Florida – With Homeland Security funding still hanging in the balance and chaos continuing at many U.S. airports, President Donald Trump is now blasting “weak and ineffective” U.S. senators in his own Republican Party who oppose ending the filibuster rule in the Senate.
“It is time for the Senate Filibuster to END,” Trump said Saturday evening on Truth Social. “Those weak and ineffective Republicans Senators that stand in the way of this should be exposed to the public. The Democrats are CRAZY!”
The president struck a similar chord Thursday as he wrote: “When is ‘enough, enough’ for our Republican Senators. There comes a time when you must do what should have been done a long time ago, and something which the Lunatic Democrats will do on day one, if they ever get the chance. TERMINATE THE FILIBUSTER, and get our airports, and everything else, moving again. Also, add the complete, all five items, SAVE AMERICA ACT items. Go for the Gold!!!”
Appearing on “Sunday Morning Futures” with Maria Bartiromo on the Fox News Channel, U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., a member of the Homeland Security Committee, agreed with Trump in ending the filibuster, saying the Senate is “broken.”
“How much [more] broken can the United States Senate get? It’s always been described as the saucer beneath the cup of tea to cool the passions,” Johnson said. “It’s more like the plaque in the arteries that are causing a heart attack.”
“How could it be much more broken when we can’t even fund the very agency when we’re at war with Iran, they might possibly have sleeper cells here in this country, we can’t even fund the very agency designed to keep that homeland safe? I don’t see how it could get much worse. I’m for ending the 60-vote threshold and ending the filibuster.”
But Johnson indicated ending the filibuster is no easy task, as some of his GOP colleagues wish to maintain the tool.
“It will require Republican public pressure to force enough Republican senators to do that,” he said. “Unfortunately, I think we’ve got Republican senators who are willing to die on that hill as well.”
“You just might see Democrats being so obnoxious, so obstructionist, maybe enough of my colleagues, we need 50 of ’em, to change that rule and get rid of the filibuster.”
Johnson was also asked about difficulties passing the SAVE America Act requiring proof of citizenship and a photo ID when voting, and again he said Senate rules are standing in the way.
“With that 60-vote threshold, Democrats – this is a hill they will die on, because any kind of election integrity really is existential to their game plan of turning America into a one-party nation. They flooded this country with millions of illegal immigrants, put ’em in sanctuary cities to plus up their numbers.
“But here’s what they [did] even more deviously. They trained activists to obstruct justice, encourage them to put themselves in harm’s way knowing they could get harmed. They got two martyrs and then they’re using those martyrs as their excuse to try and defund law enforcement, to defund the very agencies that are designed to clean up the mess they created. That’s what we’re dealing with. That’s who Democrats are.
“Republicans need to get united and we need to make sure that we blame Democrats because that is where the fault lies. Let’s get as much DHS funded as possible, move to reconciliation, pass a reconciliation bill focused on DHS funding through fiscal year 2029 and then be ready for another reconciliation to fund the rest of the government starting in October.”
.@SenRonJohnson: “It’s not Republicans that are refusing to fund DHS, it’s Democrats. You take a look at their record of opening up our border, flooding this country with sex traffickers, human traffickers, potential terrorists… We need to fund these agencies.” pic.twitter.com/ljHuMsO9kG
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) March 29, 2026
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