Rhonda Weaver

[Rhonda Weaver @WeaverRg1]

@LeaderJohnThune Did anyone ask the insightful question of WHEN WILL THE SAVE AMERICA ACT BE PASSED?

[Rhonda Weaver @WeaverRg1]

@DC_Draino This has been the trend on X everyday. The people have spoken. Make it happen.

[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.

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

Senator Thune,

I mean this in earnest:

The American people are angry.

We gave you the majority. We gave Republicans the White House, House, and Senate.

President Trump is doing his job. The House is doing its job. The Senate is failing to act.

If you do not bring the SAVE America Act to the Senate floor and ultimately pass the bill into law, Republicans will lose both the House and Senate this November.

I think you underestimate the anger of the American people.

I think you underestimate that Republicans will NOT vote this November unless you secure our elections.

Do you want to be remembered as the Senate Majority Leader that was responsible for ushering in the decline of the United States?

Or do you want your legacy as one of the most productive Senate Majority Leaders that was responsible for the most transformative bills of election integrity in American history?

I’m coming to South Dakota for SAVE America rallies in March and I’ll be interviewing your constituents to ask them about how they feel about the Senate.

Respectfully and peacefully, we will not stop; we will not back down; we will not relent; we will not forget; and we will continue to push for the SAVE America Act until it’s signed into law.

Either wield power and be remembered as a hero in the majority

or lose it all with a democrat takeover as the minority.

See you soon, Rapid City, Sioux Falls, and Washington, DC — peacefully.

@LeaderJohnThune

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

I need you to get mad.

What don’t you understand?

The democrats gerrymandered our maps for decades, while Republicans sat back and watched — “Midwest nice” — “Utah nice.”

The democrats took down our borders, cut down fences, and allowed millions of illegal aliens to invade us.

Then, they used the illegal immigration invasion to overcrowd our schools, hospitals, and housing.

Then, the democrats counted them — illegal aliens — in the Census for the specific purpose of diluting American votes — taking away House seats from legal Americans.

With 500,000 homeless and 50,000 homeless veterans, democrats pushed Americans into the streets and welcomed their new voters into taxpayer-funded homes and hotels.

Democrats watched as illegal aliens murdered our people; from rapes, to DUI, to death by opioids.

They welcomed the Cartel and MS-13 to grow like a cancer within our country.

We are nothing to the democrat party. Their own voters are nothing to them. Just pawns — just chess pieces in a game stacked against the American people.

Then, they tried to bankrupt President Trump.

Then, they stole an election from him.

Then, they fried to remove him from the ballot.

Then, they tried to imprison him.

Then, they tried to kill him.

Through immense peaceful blood, sweat, and tears, we gave President Trump the POPULAR vote in 2024.

We won everything — except Senate seats down ballot because it was never in the plan to allow us a 60-seat threshold.

Democrats may be a lot of things, but they know Republican Senators will always be weaker than they are.

Now, with a Republican White House, House, and Senate, our weak Republican Senate is on the verge of giving democrats ultimate power.

Even in control, Republican Senators are incapable of wield powering and delivering victories.

With 84% of Americans in agreement for photo ID and proof of citizenship, spineless jellyfish would rather deliver decline than seize this great opportunity handed to them on a golden platter.

Why aren’t you shouting to the rooftops?

Why are you scrolling social media instead of writing letters?

Why aren’t you planning a peaceful trip to DC to meet with your Members of Congress?

Why are you not calling and texting everyone you know to empower them to take action?

Courage is contagious.

We, American people, will simple not tolerate inaction. We expect results. We demand results. We will not sit back and watch our Republican Senate hand victories to the democrats because they are too busy taking weeks off instead of daring to work on behalf of the American people.

Get mad.

Be peaceful, but — for the love of our nation — take peaceful, positive action.

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

I heard you can just post "Pass the SAVE Act @johnthune" and get a ton of likes.

You should try it.

[Rhonda Weaver @WeaverRg1]

@LeaderJohnThune PASS THE SAVE (AMERICA) ACT.

[Minnesota Staff Fraud Reporting Commentary @Minnesota_DHS]

Tim Walz is 100% responsible for massive fraud in Minnesota. We let Tim Walz know of fraud early on, hoping for a partnership in stopping fraud but no, we got the opposite response. Tim Walz systematically retaliated against whistleblowers using monitoring, threats, repression, and did his best to discredit fraud reports. Instead of partnership, we got the full weight of retaliation by Tim Walz, certain DFL members and an indifferent mainstream media. It’s scary, isolating and left us wondering who we can turn to.

In addition to retaliating against whistleblower, Tim Walz disempowered the Office of the Legislative Auditor, allowing agencies to disregard their audit findings and guidance. Media and politicians supporting Tim Walz or the DFL-agenda attacked whistleblowers who were trying to raise red flags on fraudulent activities.

This is a cascade of systemic failures leading up to Tim Walz. Agency leaders appointed by Tim Walz willfully disregarded rules and laws to keep fraud reports quiet - even to the extent of threatening families of whistleblowers. These same leaders are not qualified for their jobs, instead getting leadership jobs via Tim Walz’s friendship so state government were left floundering. DFL lawmakers refused to acknowledge fraud and deflected any serious conversation to stop fraud. Biased mainstream media such as WCCO and MPR showed absolutely no interest in covering fraud happening in our own state. Programs, especially in behavioral health and disability services were built without any guardrails against fraud, all in an attempt to extract more funding from legislature and the federal government.

As staff, we firsthand witnessed and observed fraud happening yet we were shutdown, reassigned and told to keep quiet. Sometimes more. Leadership did not want to appear to discriminate against certain communities and were unwilling to take action, such as stopping fraud, that would have an adverse impact on their image. To date, no single agency leader has been held responsible for their role in fraud whether it’s Shireen Gandhi, Jess Geil, Jodi Harpstead, Natasha Merz, Eric Grumdahl or others.

It is a structure created and maintained by Tim Walz who has created an environment of inter-related agencies and institutions including the media - that help foster fraud through retaliation and turning a blind eye in exchange for political gain in the form of high power agency leadership jobs or other perks.

Fundamentally, Tim Walz is dishonest, lacks ethics and integrity, has poor leadership abilities, and has never taken any accountability for his role in fraud. Instead, Tim Walz deflects by blaming national politics for his own failings and distracts the public with inveterate lying. These lies include his reference of a budget surplus under his tenure. Fact is, Minnesota never had a surplus, we had been given federal ARPA funds that were conflated as surplus money otherwise, we’d be in a deficit. And those ARPA funds, which were meant to be temporary funds were used to create more leadership positions for Tim Walz “buddies.”

As such, we can’t fight fraud in Minnesota alone hence why we’re appealing to the federal levels of government. We need all the help we can get as Tim Walz’s agency leaders have upped their brazen approach in covering up their knowledge of fraud.

We are grateful to numerous solid politicians (esp the Fraud Committee) and media outlets who are trying to halt fraud. We are also grateful to other whistleblowers who are bravely stepping up.

Thank You NY Times for bringing the plight of Minnesota to the national stage.

@nytimes

[Rhonda Weaver @WeaverRg1]

@atensnut What were they thinking?! Apparently, NOT! Somebody’s about to get fired!

[Rhonda Weaver @WeaverRg1]

@SpeakerJohnson Even if you go through with the $4000 senior relief, NOT ALL seniors will benefit from it. However, all seniors will benefit from NO TAXES ON SOCIAL SECURITY, as PROMISED by President Trump. Get it right!

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

I think we can all agree on a few things:

We have $36 trillion of national debt growing at a rapid rate, that must be refinanced and issued at a materially higher interest rate as our bonds come due and as new funds are needed.

We had a $1.8 trillion deficit in fiscal 2024.

There is an enormous amount of fraud, waste, and inappropriate spending in our government budget.

It is illegal and/or otherwise should not be permitted for our government to fund activities that it cannot do directly through NGOs and other non-profits.

@elonmusk has a proven ability to takeover dysfunctional organizations and turn them into highly functioning ones while massively reducing wasteful overhead and other spending. See Twitter.

@realDonaldTrump won the election with a mandate for eliminating wasteful government spending and ending regulations that interfere with our country’s progress.

President Trump announced during his campaign that Elon would be appointed to oversee @DOGE. In other words, the American people voted for and signed up for DOGE and Elon as its leader.

We are extremely fortunate to have one of our greatest business leaders and entrepreneurs devote a considerable amount of his limited time for free to help our country.

We are extremely fortunate that some of our most talented young people have signed on to help DOGE succeed.

DOGE is just getting started and has already identified a massive amount of waste and likely fraud, and has begun cutting a material amount of costs.

It is axiomatic that those who are beneficiaries of waste, fraud and unnecessary government spending will be the most threatened by the cuts that DOGE is making in these programs. These beneficiaries of waste and fraud are also extremely worried about the reputational, legal and potential criminal risk they will suffer by being exposed by DOGE.

The beneficiaries of government waste, fraud and inappropriate spending will protest loudly and state false reasons for why DOGE must be stopped because their careers and livelihoods are threatened and put at risk by DOGE’s success. I have seen this movie many times before, but in the corporate world.

The president has stated clearly that he is overseeing DOGE’s activities and that no important decisions will be made without his consent.

Our legal system will ensure that no laws are broken as DOGE executes on its important mission.

Other efforts over the last many decades to eliminate government waste and fraud have totally failed.

DOGE is our best hope for fixing our fundamentally flawed and highly ineffective bureaucratic system for running our country.

Elon and Trump will face enormous pressure and pushback from those who benefit from the current corrupt system.

All Americans must therefore make their voices heard loud and clear about how much they support DOGE, Elon and our president’s efforts to help our country. We cannot let DOGE fail as our country is rapidly on the path to insolvency.

Let’s not let our country down. Let’s do our part in making sure our Congressmen and Senators know that we are 100% behind the president, Elon and DOGE.

It’s the least we can do.

[Juanita Broaddrick @atensnut]

Holy Smokes!!! That’s intense.

[Emily Jacobs @emilyfjacobs]

Sen. FETTERMAN on Trump saying the US will "take over" the Gaza strip and relocate all Palestinians while area is rebuilt:

"It's a provocative part of the conversation, but it's part of the conversation, and that's where we are. The Palestinians have refused, or they've been unwilling to deliver a government that provided security and economic development for themselves.

They allowed 10/7 to occur, and now Gaza has to be rebuilt. Where are the people going to live? Where are they going to go? So it's part of a conversation with where they're at right now."

[Andrea S. James @AndreaSJames]

Gently, softly, calmly, let’s talk about what’s happening in DC right now.

Friends, have you ever been through a ZBB process? If not, let me give you my take. So, in a corporation where expenses are out of control, you have to put the entire company through a zero based budgeting process. It is one of the most painful things that people in a company experience.

You basically have to justify every. single. expense. And you also cut a bunch, and then only add back after you’ve gone through a proper ZBB cycle.

The US government is going through a ZBB right now. And that is necessary because spending is out of control. The complexity is so vast that I expect it will take AI to decipher.

You cannot tell me that a government that accidentally wires hundreds of millions of dollars to the Taliban has its finances in order. That signals an underlying disaster. That signals bad stewardship of resources.

In fact, it is a disaster. Over the last 20 fiscal years, the US government has made ~$2.7 trillion in "improper payments," according to the US Government Accountability Office. Trillion! With a T!

That financial management disaster was not caused by @elonmusk. And there is no painless way to clean it up.

Elon is doing what any executive would do walking into a giant mess. You ZBB and then build back.

So, I don’t believe that America is going to be on the wrong side of global right and wrong, as some are saying. I don’t believe that America is going to be permanently isolationist. I do believe that unwatched finances will get out of control in any human system, and that the GAO has been trying to ring this bell for years, and that scaled complexity requires scaled financial management.

Because the US has the largest budget in the world, it will now go through the single most complex ZBB ever undertaken in the history of the world.

Some states do ZBB, but it's never been done at the federal level. President Jimmy Carter tried, but the bureaucratic systems were too complex, and President Ronald Reagan abandoned the attempt.

So, if there is one person in the world chosen to lead this Grand Canyon of projects, we would hope for the president to choose one of the best capital allocators on the planet. Better if that human is also one who can leverage AI and technical talent to manage the massive complexity.

Anyone who has lived through a ZBB at the corporate level will tell you that it’s hell and everyone hates it. This is why I feel really bad for federal workers -- I have a lot of empathy for civil servants and people doing a great job every day for the United States. No doubt, the uncertainty is trying and stressful for many. It's an unfortunate situation.

So, that's my take. I don't want to speak beyond what I know and can observe from the other side of the country. I've worked both in the private sector and the public sector -- the cultures are different. And an Elon-Musk-style culture is going to be the most hard core of them all. No doubt, it's jarring. It's gonna be a lot.

But what I also know is that every time I have ever doubted Elon, I ended up being the one who was wrong.

[Rhonda Weaver @WeaverRg1]

@ScottPresler And it should be! Congratulations’

[Rhonda Weaver @WeaverRg1]

@ScottPresler @realDonaldTrump Thank you, Scott. You just saved America. Texas is proud of you.

[Rhonda Weaver @WeaverRg1]

@GovernorShapiro And you would know this how?

[Rhonda Weaver @WeaverRg1]

@60Minutes Quit deflecting and just do it! Release the transcript. No transcript? No more 60 Minutes in my house.

[Rhonda Weaver @WeaverRg1]

@LawrenceBJones3 Somebody’s loved ones lives in those “handful” of apartments! Even one apartment is too many! Why is the focus on Trump instead of these illegal alien criminals that are here due to the Biden/Harris policies? America, MSM is NOT your friend!

[Thrilla the Gorilla @ThrillaRilla369]

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