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Thune Gets Senate History Wrong

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Thune Gets Senate History Wrong

July 8, 2026
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Democrats are blocking the SAVE America Act, and President Trump wants Senate Republicans to make them do it the hard way. He attended the Senate Republicans’ lunch to renew that demand, as Senators Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Rick Scott, R-Fla., press their colleagues — including Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D. — to use the Senate’s existing rules to overcome Democratic obstruction and pass the bill.

Lee made the case to Thune on X. “As I’ve been asking you to do for months, please bring it up now and announce that we will debate it until it passes.”

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