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[Ike @iketaylor11]

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[Ike @iketaylor11]

@LauraLoomer This is a lie. McConnell can’t even talk for 20 minutes. He’s a vegetable.

[Ike @iketaylor11]

@SenRandPaul Looks like someone is finally afraid they will be unelected next.

[MN Gun Owners Caucus @mnguncaucus]

🚨 TRYING AN URGENCY. ONE HOUR. ACT NOW.

The DFL is forcing urgency on HF 5140 — Rep. Greenman's carbon copy of SF 4067, their omnibus GUN BAN bill introduced yesterday.

The next hour decides it.

If you haven't contacted your legislator, stop reading and do it: 👉 https://t.co/AionzpDBoj

✅ Send the email
✅ Call the office
✅ Do both

Then help us keep fighting: https://t.co/mImFg05fVT

[Ike @iketaylor11]

@mnguncaucus Didn’t you guys strike down the omnibus from last year with this crap in it? How can they do it again?

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

Hello Senator Thune,

At 3 AM on Friday, March 27th, in a near-empty chamber, you passed a bill by voice vote that excludes all funding for ICE and CBP.

Let me repeat that: voice vote. No roll call. No record of who was there. No accountability. Just you, Barrasso, and a handful of senators shuffling paper in the dead of night while America slept.

You could have demanded a recorded vote. You chose not to.

You could have held the line for five more days until the House returned. You chose not to.

You could have used the same procedural tools Democrats have used against you for 40 days. You chose not to.

Instead, you gave Chuck Schumer exactly what he asked for, DHS funding minus immigration enforcement, and called it a win. Then you walked to the cameras and blamed the Democrats.

Let's be precise about what you did:

1. You caved to a demand Democrats made on Day 1 of this shutdown. Forty-one days of supposed hardball negotiation, and you settled for their opening offer.
2. You handed them a template. The next time Democrats want to defund any agency — ICE, CBP, or anything else — they now know: just shut down DHS and wait. John Thune will fold at 3 AM.
3. You punted to reconciliation. "Good possibility," you said. Not "we will." Not "guaranteed." Just maybe. Meanwhile, ICE operates on fumes from last year's bill with no certainty of future funding.

The precedent you set:

You have argued for months that the filibuster is sacrosanct. That the 60-vote threshold protects minority rights. That we cannot bend Senate rules for policy wins.

But at 3 AM on Friday, you bent every norm that actually mattered:

• Voice vote to avoid accountability
• Empty chamber to avoid debate
• Midnight deal to avoid scrutiny
• Immediate recess to avoid questions

You'll bend the rules to avoid a fight. You just won't bend them to win one.

What you've actually accomplished:

Democrats demanded ICE restrictions. They got ICE defunded.

Not reformed. Not restrained. Defunded.

And you're out here tweeting about how Democrats are the "Defund the Police" party while you just voted to defund border enforcement at 3 in the morning.
The question you should answer:

Why did this deal have to happen at 3 AM?

Why couldn't it happen at 3 PM, with cameras rolling and every senator on record?

You know why. Because you didn't want your voters to see what surrender looks like.

Here's my message: We saw it anyway.

Stop hiding behind "Democrat obstruction." You're the Majority Leader. You set the schedule. You control the floor. You chose this outcome.

Own it.

[MN Gun Owners Caucus @mnguncaucus]

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[Ike @iketaylor11]

@mnguncaucus Thank you! Keep fighting the good fight.

[Ike @iketaylor11]

@LeaderJohnThune we the people see what you are doing.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

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:

• Goldman Sachs: $150K to you - top H-1B user
• Google: $75K - lobbies against E-Verify
• Meta: $72.5K - Zuckerberg's FWD[.]us pushes mass immigration
• 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.

[Ike @iketaylor11]

@LeaderJohnThune You’re on the wrong side of things too, who owns you? Why haven’t you implemented the talking filibuster and cancelled the senate recess?

[Ike @iketaylor11]

@mnguncaucus I thought this was already overturned?

[Ike @iketaylor11]

@Michele_Tafoya How did this pass? Which republican switched sides?

[Ike @iketaylor11]

@ScottPresler Scott, you know this is just theater right? It won’t pass unless he is removed or the talking filibuster is invoked.

[Ike @iketaylor11]

@LeaderJohnThune needs to be removed as leader! He is bought and paid for. Republicans need to grow a spine and get it done!

[Ike @iketaylor11]

@JohnCornyn @realDonaldTrump In the words of Maury, that’s a lie!

[Ike @iketaylor11]

@Rightanglenews @RepThomasMassie care to respond?

[Ike @iketaylor11]

@RepThomasMassie @krystalball You have become insufferable. What happened to you?

[MN Gun Owners Caucus @mnguncaucus]

🚨 HAPPENING NOW 🚨

Hundreds of you have already submitted written testimony opposing HF 3433 (Gun Ban) and HF 3402 (Magazine Ban).

That’s great.

But there are hundreds of thousands more of you who still need to act before 3:00 PM today.

📢 Let’s overwhelm the Minnesota House Public Safety Committee.

Submit your testimony NOW:
👉 https://t.co/aQfzzhuikr

They need to see the size and strength of the opposition.

Thanks for being in the fight. 💪

[Ike @iketaylor11]

@SenMcConnell doesn’t hate Trump. He doesn’t even know who Trump is. McConnell is was walking senile vegetable. Who’s making decisions for him?

[Ike @iketaylor11]

@MNHRCWarRoom That GUY is a groomer! Disgusting.

[Ike @iketaylor11]

@HennepinAtty It’s a federal matter. Sit down.