by Ben Whedon
Senate Majority Leader John Thune on Monday poured cold water on the prospect of canceling the Senate’s August recess to pass the SAVE America Act, saying he saw no path to passage of the bill.
The marquis voter ID legislation has languished in the Senate due to the 60-vote filibuster threshold. Thune has declined to alter Senate rules or fire the parliamentarian to sneak voter ID in through the reconciliation process, which is limited to budget matters.
Trump on Monday called for Thune to cancel recess to pass the bill, but Thune said nothing had changed.
“We could stay here until Christmas and the Democrats aren’t voting for this and Republicans are not getting rid of the legislative filibuster,” he told reporters.
“Give me a rationale or a path to getting success.”
He also highlighted that he had previously met with 20 Republicans to discuss alterations to Senate rules and that 15 of them had opposed such a move.
“Now, if [Trump] can change the facts and start moving some of those senators who are no’s into yeses, then we have a different conversation,” he added, according to Semafor.
Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville said the Senate “has done nothing to deserve” a five-week hiatus.
“We haven’t funded the military, we are about to let Democrats shut down the government, and our elections STILL aren’t secure. The House has passed hundreds of bills. Other than the One Big Beautiful Bill, all the Senate has done is pass bills rebuking Trump and giving Democrats handouts. We have lost sight of the fact that our job is to deliver RESULTS for the American people,” Tuberville said.
“If we do not pass the SAVE America Act before November, Democrats will steal the 2026 and 2028 elections, and we will go back to Joe Biden’s immigration policy on steroids under the new Communist Democrat party. Now is the time to dig in, eliminate the manufactured filibuster, and start a new Senate tradition of actually getting things done for the Constitution and the American people,” he added.
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Ben Whedon is a reporter for Just the News.Â
i hope thune enjoys his last term