undermining Trump at every turn<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cNuke the filibuster, pass all this stuff and pass Trump\u2019s executive orders,\u201d Ogles added.<\/p>\n
Some Republicans have gotten so fed up with the Senate that they have said they\u2019ll block any legislation that comes over from the upper chamber until the SAVE America Act is passed. Despite their efforts, they have been unsuccessful, and at least two Senate bills passed out of the House this week.<\/p>\n
Rep. Tim Burchett said he\u2019s grown disappointed in Thune\u2019s leadership.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just don\u2019t think he\u2019s following through on what he needs to do,\u201d Burchett said.<\/p>\n
Rep. Keith Self, a member of the House Freedom Caucus, concurred with Burchett that Thune hasn\u2019t proven to be any better than McConnell.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need to keep up the pressure,\u201d Self said. \u201cThe American people will make this happen.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rep. Michael Cloud, another member of the Freedom Caucus, concurred, saying that he is \u201cgenerally speaking, disappointed with what we\u2019ve seen in the Senate.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rep. Lauren Boebert told NOTUS that \u201cdisappointment isn\u2019t a solution\u201d and that Thune \u201cneeds to get it right and actually make members of the Senate debate.\u201d<\/p>\n
The House has complained about the Senate, likely since the signing of the Constitution. The House-hates-the-Senate trope is often mocked by senators and their aides alike.<\/p>\n
\u201cAre these geniuses in the House aware of the existence of Mitch McConnell, Chuck Grassley, Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, Thom Tillis and the other 15 Republican senators who will never vote to blow up the filibuster?\u201d one senior aide to a Trump-allied senator quipped to NOTUS.<\/p>\n
Another senior Senate GOP aide pushed back on the criticism from House members, telling NOTUS that \u201csome people seem to think there\u2019s a magic talking-filibuster switch that Thune can simply flip on. It takes 51 members to agree to a process, not a unilateral decision by the leader.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThune knows his members, and he knows how the Senate works,\u201d the aide continued. \u201cIf some House Republicans want to blame him and other Senate Republicans because they\u2019re upset about Senate procedure, that\u2019s their prerogative, but it\u2019s not a winning message to take to voters in November, to state the obvious. When Republicans fight Republicans, Democrats win.\u201d<\/p>\n
The aide pointed to how Thune \u201cconfirmed President Trump\u2019s Cabinet at the fastest pace in 20 years\u201d and was able to push through a rules change allowing the Senate to approve Trump\u2019s nominations in batches with a simple majority. Additionally, Thune was \u201cinstrumental in putting the Working Families Tax Cuts bill on the president\u2019s desk,\u201d the aide said of Republicans\u2019 domestic policy bill.<\/p>\n
Republicans in the Senate still overwhelmingly back Thune and understand the tough position he is in.<\/p>\n
\u201cJohn Thune has a hard job and puts policies on the floor when he has the votes to pass them. The reality is we don\u2019t have the votes to nuke the filibuster and with precious floor time left before the midterms, we need to be focused on conservative priorities we can achieve,\u201d Sen. Tim Sheehy told NOTUS in a statement.<\/p>\n
Though conservative members of the House and the Senate have complaints about how Thune is doing his job, the voices with the most weight have tried to stay above the fray when pressed on the issue.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have to work with Leader Thune on that. I don\u2019t tell him how to run the Senate, and he doesn\u2019t tell me how to run the House,\u201d Speaker Mike Johnson said last week. \u201cBut we coordinate as best as we can.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"House Republicans have always found solace in attacking the Senate. They routinely assailed former Senate Republican Leader Mitch…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-534087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}