@MerlijnTrader They did it with SAVE act, With Border/National Security funding, ICE, CBP. The TDS is unhinged. Long past time to nuke the filibuster and start getting stuff done.
@InvestWithD Can we just get rid of all these hacks on the hill already! Sick and tired of both damned parties. Two side of the same self serving coin.
@FloraLuzz_ Probably the same way I’d react when I show up at the bar to buy a drink,ticket counter to board a plane, register my vehicle, buy a pack of smokes, open a bank account account, purchase cough syrup, and pretty much anything else. SHOW MY FUCKING ID & Move on.
Shit like this is EXACTLY why no one wants to be a 1st responder anymore. This judge needs to be bounced off the bench and this bitch needs to be counter sued or at very least put back where the FD found her so she can find her own way down.
“Sorry John Thune when you start asking for money for re election campaigns for Senators like Lisa Murkowski, John Curtis of Utah and yourself in South Dakota….
Sorry, there’s nothing we can do…”
- Nick Freitas
@BasedMikeLee@SteCK1878 You had best step up. We’re done with Senate GOP. Anyone who doesn’t get on board, will be escorted out with Thune as soon as your term is up. Remove @LeaderJohnThune NOW!
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.
@AirForceDad50@haroldbarn30589 YES, we do. It’s long past time to go scorched earth at primaries. Every damned incumbent needs to go. Silence and inaction is complicity
@bennyjohnson@PrivatteCyndi We want THUNE REMOVED NOW. We want ALL of our so called REPRESENTATIVES DOGE. We want to know who the FUK THEY ARE WORKING FOR, because it sure as hell isn’t the American people. We all have a GOOD IDEA, they are working for the WEF, just like ALL of the DEMOCRATS!