As the Senate speeds toward its upcoming August recess, President Donald Trump is turning up the pressure on Senate Majority Leader John Thune to keep his chamber in session and in Washington instead.
So far, that’s unlikely.
“You could stay here till Christmas” and the situation wouldn’t change, Thune said. “If I thought there was a path to getting a result, I’m all for it.”
The president posted to Truth Social on Monday morning that “Thune should not allow the United States Senate to ‘leave town’ until it passes” the SAVE America Act, a GOP-crafted package that would require proof of citizenship to register to vote and photo ID at the polls.
The sweeping bill does not have the 60 votes needed to advance through the Senate — a message the South Dakota Republican leader has reiterated both publicly and privately to the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue.
