Senators head for the exits without meeting Trump’s demands for voting bill
Senators advanced other Trump priorities but failed to clear the voting bill, then agreed to try again in a September budget package.
- Senate Republicans departed for summer recess, ending a standoff over President Donald Trump's demand to abolish the legislative filibuster and pass the SAVE America Act, a strict proof-of-citizenship voting bill.
- For weeks, Trump pressured Senate Majority Leader John Thune to abandon the 60-vote threshold, but the SAVE America Act lacked sufficient support among the slim Republican majority, who resisted changing the chamber's rules.
- Following a late-night call with the president, Sen. Ron Johnson, Sen. Mike Lee, and Sen. Rick Scott announced an alternative plan: attaching voting bill elements to a broader budget package for the Pentagon when the Senate returns in September.
- During the 20-hour session, Thune confirmed Attorney General Todd Blanche, passed Russian sanctions, and approved a government funding package, despite managing a slim majority with Sen. Mitch McConnell absent.
- The standoff illustrates Trump's ongoing struggle to master the Senate, where established rules and slim margins continue to constrain his legislative agenda despite his de facto speaker ambitions.
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