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Chilling. And perfect. As always, @DataRepublican goes straight to the point in terrifying clarity and detail. Every conservative should repost and cross post this everywhere.
Hello Senator Thune,
Let's expose what you're really doing with "reconciliation."
You announced it yesterday, eleven months after the House passed the SAVE America Act. You're not trying to pass this bill. You're trying to kill it in a way you can blame on process.
Here's how we know:
Reconciliation requires the Senate parliamentarian to rule that provisions are "budgetary." Citizenship verification is not budgetary. Photo ID mandates are not budgetary. The parliamentarian will gut the bill. Then you'll shrug and say "we tried." We see through you.
Meanwhile, you WON'T use the tools that actually work:
Rule XIX limits each senator to two speeches per legislative day. Keep the Senate in continuous session, file cloture daily, and the filibuster exhausts in ~12-20 days. You dismissed it as "complicated." Because if you tried and succeeded, you'd have to actually pass the bill.
Harry Reid nuked the filibuster in 2013 when he wanted results.
Mitch McConnell changed Senate rules THREE times and canceled the August recess.
Chuck Schumer used reconciliation within months on a 50-50 Senate.
You have 53 seats. You've changed nothing, canceled nothing, and waited eleven months.
Now let's talk donors:
โข Goldman Sachs: $150K to you - top H-1B user
โข Google: $75K - lobbies against E-Verify
โข Meta: $72.5K - Zuckerberg's FWD[.]us pushes mass immigration
โข Wells Fargo: $90K - banks undocumented immigrants
Same corporations sponsor Punchbowl News, where you sit for "Fly Out Days" which nobody watches except Congress staffers and K Street lobbyists who pays premium bucks for legislative intelligence. Their reporter then telegraphs to the audience the SAVE Act "will ultimately fail."
Corporate money flows to you AND to the outlet that frames your inaction as inevitable.
We see the loop.
You called grassroots anger a "paid influencer ecosystem." YOU are the paid influencer. You take the wrong side of a 80% issue because you are indistinguishable from a K Street mouthpiece, and an ineffective one to boot who won't bend the rules to get anything passed.
What we want:
1. Force a real talking filibuster.
2. Stop hiding behind process.
3. Pass the SAVE America Act.
YOU will become the reason that we will have our butts kicked in midterms. Not Candace Owens, not Nick Fuentes, not anyone else. You and you alone, and all because you want to make the 200 or so viewers of Punchbowl Fly Out Days happy. You're living in a K Street information bubble, addicted to the comforts and praises of lobbyists masquerading as journalists. You mistake the steak and martini dinners you get invited to as your own constituents.
You are not "moderate." The SAVE America Act has 98% support among Republicans. Name one other thing that has 98% support. You are an extreme minority who prides himself on being a calm leader, when in reality you are well in the running for the most ineffective Majority leader of all time.
Prove me wrong. Do the bare modicum of effort. Not symbolic. Actual effort. Cancel the recess. Get SAVE America Act passed.
@SenateGOP For crying out loud. Take responsibility. You can fix this right now! Nuke the filibuster. Now! Get Leader Thune to do his job. You KNOW Democrats will do it you when they have the chance. Just do it!
@RepMikeLevin "A birth certificate that matches your current legal name". That would be called fraud. All that is needed is the marriage certificate. And you know it. Besides, anyone who legally changes their name should up date it. Assuming they might want to open a bank account.
@ericmmatheny I've only had one poor engagement with TSA.. and it was clear the guy was having a bad day, for whatever reason. I let it slide.
Every other time they've been friendly and professional. I always greet them with a smile. Try it.
Oh Schumer, we can see right through this BULLSHIT...
After @elonmusk proposed to pay the TSA workers, all the guards dropped off?
You're probably expecting your low information voters to think that you could bring a motion to the floor for a bill that's not standalone and twist a narrative that the Republicans are "blocking" the bill?
Don't worry, on X, we got you covered. We will call you out.
I won't be surprised if President Trump is behind this strategy.. ๐ค
Since I can chew gum and walk at the same time, let me educate the voters.
To open with, what Chuckey is trying to do is IMPOSSIBLE unless he's a magician.
Under Article I, Section 7 of the U.S. Constitution (the Origination Clause) and over two centuries of congressional precedent, all appropriations and spending bills - including funding for agencies like the TSA - must originate in the House of Representatives, not the Senate.
Chuck Schumer, as Senate Democratic Leader, cannot unilaterally โbring a motion to the floor to FULLY FUND TSAโ as a standalone bill; the Senate can only amend or vote on legislation that has already passed the House.
Republicans in the House have already passed multiple clean bills to fund the entire Department of Homeland Security (including TSA, Coast Guard, FEMA, and ICE), yet Senate Democrats have blocked them, turning the impasse into political theater rather than a workable funding solution.
Schumerโs announcement is therefore procedurally impossible and designed purely to force an on-the-record vote while dodging responsibility for the broader shutdown his party helped create.
Now X, do your thing.....