Can you imagine this happening if Democrats were trying to get something in their own budget package? Nope. They’d be bribing and cajoling, much like they did with Sinema and Manchin for Biden’s big green bill. How they got Obamacare passed
Republicans fail to attach SAVE America Act to party-line funding package
A cohort of Senate Republicans joined Democrats to sink a late-night attempt to attach a version of voter ID and citizenship verification legislation to the GOP’s bill funding federal immigration enforcement.
Sens. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., all voted against a modified version of the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act early Thursday morning.
Their defection came during the Senate’s marathon “vote-a-rama,” where lawmakers could force votes on any number of amendments, regardless of whether they mesh with the underlying budget blueprint.
The amendment’s 48-to-50 failure crystallized what several Republicans had warned for weeks before launching a quasi-floor takeover to debate the SAVE America Act last month — it didn’t have the support among the GOP to pass.
Tillis, who’s out at the end of 2026, used to be reliable, but, went full Squish over the past two years. Collins and Murkowski were expected. McConnell is always a hit or miss.
It appears the proposal was doomed even if Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., launched an oral filibuster to advance the measure with a simple 50-vote majority.
Thune didn’t seem to want to try and get it passed. He seriously could have bribed them to get their votes in the time honored manner of politics, but, no. He’s never pushed it hard despite a vast majority of Republicans wanting it, and a vast majority of Americans.
Looking forwards to the midterms?
The House will be Dem
The Senate 50/50
“wacko” climate change denier Trump is taking his party down. All our former allies including Australia hate him and his idiotic war that has gone completely out of his control with his fantasy’s of his omnipotence.
Most divisive president ever !
Johnny boy-show us where Trump denies that the climate is changing. Good luck. As said before, climate “mantras” in lieu of evidence
Jl-boy(?),
Yes, yes, we know… the climate is always changing. But that’s too cute by half, ain’t it?
Today, the Earth is warming (i.e., global warming) from greenhouse gases we human beans add to the atmosphere. THAT is the denial. There are no scientific, non-*catastrophic reasons to expect this warming to stop.
Jl-boy(?) will counter that decreasing (or is increasing?) clouds are causing warming. Dr R Spencer blames cosmic rays for this.
Carbon emissions in the U.S. are decreasing about 1% per year! The E.U. even more so! Unfortunately, our “allies” China (+400%), India (+300%), middle east nations, the emerging far east (Vietnam, Malaysia, etc) and most of the 3rd world in striving to replicate the lives of the West continue to add to CO2 levels, bigly.
This is why Mr Teach’s childish goading of American Dems to eschew all fossil fuels is well, childish.
https://edgar.jrc.ec.europa.eu/report_2025
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* Massive volcanoes, asteroid strikes and thermonuclear wars can add particulates to the atmosphere reducing insolation.
Sadly, Senator McConnell, who will also be out after the end of this year, hates President Trump as well.
Sens. Thom Tillis, R-NC, Lisa Murkowski, R-AL, Susan Collins, R-ME, and Mitch McConnell, R-KY, feel there’s little the Mad King can do to harm them.
The SAVE Act is purely and simply voter suppression.
Senator McConnell is hardly flying solo in his disdain for Sick Donny, whose approval rating loiters around 30%!!
The unstable trump is shedding what little stability he has/had.
So claims the unstable Rimjob.