'In the first hour': Trump frets about what Democrats will do 'when they assume control'

President Donald Trump reiterated his demand for Senate Republicans to end the filibuster as the government shutdown continues setting daily records as the longest in history.

Trump has long wanted to nuke the filibuster and seems to have decided the continuing impasse gives him the best opportunity to accomplish his goal, and he warned reluctant Republicans that Democrats would do the same if given another chance to hold the Senate majority.

"The Democrats will terminate the Filibuster in THE FIRST HOUR, if and when they assume 'control' or power," Trump posted Thursday on Truth Social. "Republicans have what the Democrats want — We should do it, NOW, and have the greatest three years in History!"

Trump made the same demand Wednesday during an event with Senate Republicans, but individual senators indicated afterward they intended to ignore his order, and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and others cautioned that Democrats would push through policies that conservatives oppose if legislation required only a simple majority rather than the currently required 60 votes.

“(The filibuster) holds us back from the Democrats’ worst impulses,” Johnson said earlier this week.

Sen. Dave McCormick (R-PA) issued the same warning over the weekend on Fox News, and those concerns were echoed by Sens. Roger Marshall (R-KS) and Markwayne Mullin (R-OK).

“Just imagine a world where there’s no filibuster and you have the crazy radical part of the Democratic Party in charge,” McCormick said. “We would become a country of socialism.”