Ashley Smith

[Jennifer Sey @JenniferSey]

The Met Gala is gross. Tickets are $100k. Tables are $350k. Rich people pretend to be socialists. Vomit.

It never actually mattered and now it matters even less.

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

@LeaderJohnThune This is day 125 of asking @LeaderJohnThune to pass the SAVE America Act.

[Riley Gaines @Riley_Gaines_]

Stop. Trying. To. Kill. Our. President.

[Sassafrass84 @Sassafrass_84]

God Bless President Trump. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

You know what to do.

Make it trend, folks.

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

Give America the best birthday present ever:

Pass the SAVE America Act

Share if you agree

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS AND GOD BLESS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

We’re in an abusive relationship with NATO

Let’s leave

Pass it on

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

This is day 91 of asking @LeaderJohnThune to pass the SAVE America Act.

CC: @RepJenKiggans

[Ashley Smith @anoels1987]

@ThrillaRilla369 No, because that’s not what God has called me to. I’ve been given the gift of singleness and my mission field is working with local teens who are considered at risk.

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

I wonder if Senate Majority Leader Thune realizes that he’s going to lose several allies in the Senate this November

b/c of his inability to pass the SAVE America Act.

Peacefully.

CC: @LeaderJohnThune

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

Dear @LeaderJohnThune,

Do you want your legacy to be that your inaction on the SAVE America Act

lost us the Alaska, Maine, & North Carolina Senate seats this November?

53 - 3 = 50

Asking for 77 million voters.

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

This is day 89 of asking @LeaderJohnThune to pass the SAVE America Act.

Can’t believe I’ve been posting about this for 89 days (& the Senate is on vacation).

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

Citizenship means nothing if noncitizens can vote

We’re not going away

We’re not giving up

We’re going to pass the SAVE America Act

If you try to stop us, YOU WILL FAIL

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

I’m going to say this as respectfully, peacefully, and professionally as possible:

If our Republican Senate majority does NOT pass the SAVE America Act,

there will be massive consequences

(beginning on May 26th, 2026).

It’s a courteous & polite promise.

[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.

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

Cancel the recess

Fund DHS

Pass the SAVE America Act

Failure to do this will produce defeat

In November

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

NO RECESS!

If the American people have to work — & TSA agents aren’t getting paid —

no Senators should be going home for a paid vacation.

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

@LeaderJohnThune It would be a complete slap in the face for the Senate to take a paid vacation,

while tens of thousands of TSA agents still aren’t receiving paychecks.

NO RECESS!

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

Please share if you agree that the Senate should not recess until it has (1) fully funded DHS, and (2) passed the SAVE America Act

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

@LeaderJohnThune How can the Senate go on a paid vacation with the Department of Homeland Security still not fully funded?