Senate goes "nuclear" fulfilling Trump's campaign promise

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Senate Republicans go nuclear; pave the way for Gorsuch confirmation to Supreme Court

Trump sends congratulatory tweets — "all cards on table"

**BREAKING NEWS**

Senate Republicans successfully voted to change the rules of the U.S. Senate on Thursday and confirm U.S. Supreme Court nominees with a simple majority vote.

In deploying the so-called nuclear option, lawmakers are fundamentally altering the way the Senate operates — a sign of the body’s creeping rancor in recent years after decades of at least relative bipartisanship on Supreme Court matters.

In tweets, President Trump applauded the Senate action saying that the Senate is following through on his campaign promise that all options will be on the table when he becomes president.