@elonmusk@zerohedge This is a smart move. If the Dems should ever take back control and try to kneecap Elon (SpaceX) they would be hurting the future of “every kid in America”. Not only is Elon a hero but he guarantees the success of SpaceX. Well played sir!
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.
@VerizonNews@Verizon I was told at signing that I would lock in my price. My bill has gone up $50+ a month since then. Local affiliate has no real explanation. I heard rumors prior to joining you don’t hold to your word, but this is insane.
@RepLuna@GOPoversight Release the files and skip the tax payer funded field trip. First hand witnesses from over 60 years ago? This task force feels more political theater than transparency.
@sailaunderscore Breakfast - over night oats and protein shake 71g
Snack - protein chips 13g
Lunch - high protein crockpot meal 47g
Snack - peanut butter protein balls 22g
Dinner - salmon and rice 36g
Snack - peanut butter rice cakes 8g
Total 🟰 197g
@shipwreckedcrew Could a state AG go after Hunter under concurrent jurisdiction? Also Schiff, Cheney, and Fauci under the same jurisdiction to include interstate commerce?
@JoJoFromJerz@MichaelSteele@realDonaldTrump Now genitalia matters?! Not that long ago it didn’t matter what your genitalia was, just what you identified as. So yes, a boy could go to school and decide he was a girl before he got home. Your rules not his.
@POTUS We all know this is smoke and mirrors. You know or are having the ACLU sue, it will get blocked by a cooperating judge, then you will twiddle your thumbs and blame it on Republicans and Trump.