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{"id":26535,"date":"2026-07-27T14:02:46","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T14:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-tells-thune-to-keep-senate-in-session-to-pass-save-america-act\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T14:02:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T14:02:46","slug":"trump-tells-thune-to-keep-senate-in-session-to-pass-save-america-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-tells-thune-to-keep-senate-in-session-to-pass-save-america-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump tells Thune to keep Senate in session to pass SAVE America Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>President Donald Trump ramped up pressure Monday on Majority Leader <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.politicopro.com\/member\/51242\" data-person-id=\"51242\">John Thune<\/a>, telling him to keep the Senate in session until a GOP election bill passes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJohn Thune should not allow the United States Senate to \u2018leave town\u2019 until it passes The Save America Act or, far better still, TERMINATES THE FILIBUSTER, where Republicans can then quickly pass everything they ever dreamed of,\u201d Trump wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116992066632190700\" target=\"_blank\"><u>Truth Social post<\/u><\/a> Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats, he added, will nix the filibuster themselves when they regain power \u201cand can\u2019t believe how lucky they got with this Senate leadership. Remember, stupidity always brings LOSING &amp; DEATH!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s Truth Social post comes after he urged supporters last week to call Thune about the SAVE America Act, then said Friday that he wanted Senate Republicans to adopt a blueprint for a $95 billion party-line spending bill, which would include some election-related funding, before they leave town for the August recess as planned on Aug. 6.<\/p>\n<p>Sens. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Rick Scott (R-Fla.) said over the weekend that they believed the Senate should stay in town until the election bill is passed. Lee has previously called for the Senate to stay in session through prior recesses to pass the SAVE America Act but has not forced the issue on the floor.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Trump\u2019s pressure campaign, the elections bill doesn\u2019t have the votes to pass the Senate and there isn\u2019t enough support within the Senate Republican conference for nixing the filibuster, which requires 60 votes for most legislation to advance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump ramped up pressure Monday on Majority Leader John Thune, telling him to keep the Senate in session until a GOP election bill passes. \u201cJohn Thune should not allow the United States Senate to \u2018leave town\u2019 until it passes The Save America Act or, far better still, TERMINATES THE FILIBUSTER, where Republicans can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}