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[MidnightGrowler @tcamca]

@TrumpDailyPosts There is a tipping point when those in control will determine elections. You can't vote yourself out of it anymore.

[John Rich🇺🇸 @johnrich]

There's a 911 in Upstate New York!! Ain't that right @GovKathyHochul ?? Kathy, why do you hate Upstate farmers so much? Let's see what America has to say about this, shall we? If you stand with American Farmers, hit REPOST. Volume UP!👇

[Mollie @MZHemingway]

@AGJayJones I sure hope you're not going to kill the justices in front of their children for disagreeing with your unconstitutional gerrymander.

[MidnightGrowler @tcamca]

@ScottPresler @SenBillCassidy I'm pretty sure these performative speeches have pre-approval from Thune - talk tough guys, but not TOO tough.

[MidnightGrowler @tcamca]

@Milajoy

[MidnightGrowler @tcamca]

@12th_tim My dad was an AMC guy. We had the Hornet, Matador, and the Gremlin (in orange!).

[John Solomon @jsolomonReports]

The GOP. Grand Old Procrastinators. DOJ could simply have subpoenaed the Senate months ago and gone to court to enforce it. Instead, the Thune Senate plays a tired game of parliamentary tactics with Democrats who aren’t interested in disclosure.

[James Woods @RealJamesWoods]

They do this stuff with such regularity so that it’s impossible for appeals courts to keep up. Like the strategy behind the Muslim invasion, they are simply wearing us down. All we do is play catch up. Sadly it’s working.

[MidnightGrowler @tcamca]

@marklevinshow They can say in Virginia, "I voted for this." Outrage, like hindsight, is always 20/20. Can we keep this republic? 🤔

[MidnightGrowler @tcamca]

@DerrickEvans4WV Why not? GOP - "You'll vote for us because we're not democrats." Democrats - "You'll vote for us because, well, Trump. " America's leadership is in a sorry state 😔

[MidnightGrowler @tcamca]

@RepLuna There are now only two branches of government. It's executive vs. judicial. The legislative branch is null and void. The people have no representation 😕

[Cleta Mitchell @CletaMitchell]

There is a serious constitutional crisis when the legislative branch of the federal government is unable to legislate because of self-imposed ‘extra-constitutional’ rules and procedures. The Byrd Rule… named for a long-dead Democrat leader who appears to control the Senate from the grave. The filibuster rule that can’t work because of some long ago interpretation of the filibuster process.

The question is whether the Senate leaders will continue to allow their foolish adherence to arcane rules and procedures to create this constitutional crisis.

They say they won’t “nuke” the filibuster. But they also won’t overturn the long ago ruling by a parliamentarian who “interpreted” the 2-speech rule to mean the filibuster can never ever end.

As we have had to learn more about the Senate rules, it is becoming increasingly clear that the Senate is refusing to protect the filibuster by overturning the interpretation that makes the filibuster impossible to end without a supermajority.

That’s a constitutional crisis and rather than seriously address the issue and the procedures and the rules, the Senators left town.

So disgraceful.

We will know soon enough where these Senators went if they traveled during the recess. How many went on junkets. Who had fundraising trips. What they did rather than face their responsibilities.

Like funding DHS.
Like securing our elections.

Like addressing this constitutional crisis they have allowed to take over the Senate and that they refuse to remedy.

This is not what the voters bargained for. This irresponsible bunch of Senators who refuse to protect the Senate and ensure its ability to function to serve the people.

They’re mad at @BasedMikeLee for calling this all into public view.
On full display so we now see it - understand it. And hate it. But he’s not the problem. They just didn’t want the public to ever find out. But now we know. And we are disgusted.

@EIwatchdogs @BasedMikeLee @chiproytx

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

Thank you to @RepFine for sharing this video.

I’m incredulous that the Senate would go on vacation without passing the SAVE America Act.

[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.

[Tim Burchett @timburchett]

Cancel the recess and let’s pay the @TSA and @USCG and pass the Save America Act.

[Mollie @MZHemingway]

Any Republican Promising To Pass SAVE Act Via Reconciliation Is Lying To You https://t.co/tpgqN87DpG

[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.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

@SenateGOP You have a 53-47 majority. I'm not interested in blaming the Democrats.

[MidnightGrowler @tcamca]

@DerrickEvans4WV If so, Kennedy needs to insure this gets by the Senate Parlementarian. They can't half ass this.

[MidnightGrowler @tcamca]

@timburchett Files schmiles, there'll be LOTS more backroom deals made 😉