Sens. Mike Lee and Rick Scott plan to take on Senate Republicans with President Trump in the room today. Perhaps the meeting already took place. Both senators have tried to pressure Thune into doing more on the SAVE Act.
Senate Majority ‘Leader’ Thune says they don’t have the votes. Why isn’t Thune taking their committee assignments away from them?
“There are not the votes to nuke the filibuster, and there aren’t going to be 10 Democrat votes to all of a sudden support the SAVE America Act,” Thune told reporters today.
SAVE would require voter ID and proof of citizenship, while imposing new restrictions on mail-in voting.
Thune laughed when asked whether Scott checked with him before extending the invite. “Well, he told me he did it,” Thune told reporters.
I don’t even want to hear that Thune laughed about any of this. He should work to eliminate the filibuster. I know, we don’t have the votes. Well, pressure them, get angry, do something, John.
Scott sent a letter to senators yesterday outlining what he thinks the chamber’s focus should be — including passing the SAVE America Act or parts of it, according to a copy we obtained.
The Plant to Stop the Agenda
“I never speak ill of members when they want to be professional,” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) told reporters today after accusing Lee of “naivete” or wanting “to get more likes on social media posts.”
“But when you do some of the bullshit [Lee has] done on social media, that’s why he gets these comments out here,” he added.
“I think Mike Lee is contributing to this fantasy that somehow it’s going to happen,” Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) told reporters.
Tillis’s in the Senate only to stop the Republican agenda, period.
Former GOP leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), and Tillis voted against the SAVE Act during one vote that had been taken.
The closest the GOP got was 53 votes for a narrower amendment requiring photo ID to vote. Three other amendments requiring voter IDs or proof of citizenship failed to get more than 50 votes when they came up in April and June.
President Trump’s TruthSocial post this morning:
The Elizabeth “Pocahontas” Warren centric housing bill, which is of minor importance compared to lower interest rates, and even FISA, pales in comparison to passing THE SAVE AMERICA ACT. That is what Americans, both Dumocrats, Republicans, and everyone else, care about. Get the bad Republicans to approve it or, better yet, Terminate the Filibuster and approve it, AND EVERYTHING ELSE REPUBLICANS HAVE EVER DREAMED OF. The Dumocrats will do it in hour one, 100%. Republicans will feel very stupid if they don’t do it first. I’ll be watching with tears in my eyes!!! President DJT
New York just picked three more communists to run as Democrats. They have quite a few now. Say goodbye to the America you knew.
