Senate Republicans are girding for a demand by Donald Trump to undo the chamber’s filibuster traditions in order to advance his agenda if he returns to the White House.
They anticipate Trump, Republicans’ presumptive presidential nominee, will ratchet up pressure on GOP senators to weaken the current standard that requires 60 votes to advance most legislation if their party flips control of the White House and Senate this fall.
But any attempt to eject that rule would face staunch opposition from the vast majority of Senate Republicans, who in interviews ruled out doing away with the super-majority threshold in the ...