Josh Hawley

If you think that you can just shut down the government, deny Donald Trump any ability to govern, he's the duly elected president of the United States.

If you think you can take away food from 40 million Americans, take away the pay of our great military, take away the pay of our border patrol, if you think you can do that, and then you come to me, Democrats, and say, well, you just have to live with it.

No, I don't.

And if you think I'm going to side with some arcane Senate rule rather than siding with the people, you got it wrong.

So I think we're on a collision course here.

And unless the Democrats change course, if they put me to the choice of people or the Senate rules, I'm choosing the people.

And I want that to be loud and clear.

I want people to understand that, including my Republican colleagues.

They need to hear it.

And I think that's the point the president made today.

Yeah, you can change the filibuster in a lot of ways, Steve.

And I would just say to the Democrats out there who now, after voting to do this multiple times, are now hyperventilating about it, listen, if you want to prevent this, then reopen the government.

without health care to illegals.

Stop the hostage taking.

In my state, they are holding hostage thousands of military men and women, thousands of agents, law enforcement agents, and thousands of people, needy people, needy working people who cannot eat.

Stop the hostage taking.

I mean, the Democrats have a choice to make here, but I think Republicans have got to be clear that we're just not going to capitulate and allow this to go on forever.

And so to your question, yeah, there's different ways to change or reform the filibuster.

You could do any number of things.

You can make people actually hold the floor like they used to in the old days.