American Midterm Elections are just a little more 6 months away….
ALL indications ARE that Democrats WILL gain control of the US House of Representatives due President Trump Fucking up the economy, immigration policy and getting stuck in a War with an Iran that is turning into quicksand and further fucking up oil/gas prices…..
Trump sounds desperate to try to suppress the vote’s around the country to try a stop the coming Democratic Midterm wave that appears to be forming in good part because of him typical ‘seat of the pants’ way of operating…
He want’s the Senate to throw out the rules.…
He wants the Republican House member’s to screw their re-election chances….
‘His’ Party members in the Congress do NOT seem inclined to hurt themselves for the lame duck. one way Donald…who ain’t running , except away, in two and half years from now…..
President Donald Trump told House Republicans Monday he had one overriding legislative priority for 2026. Then they spent Tuesday talking about just about anything else.
Trump’s demand for passage of an updated SAVE America Act — a GOP elections bill that the House has advanced two versions of already — was met with less than complete enthusiasm from leaders gathered for the annual Republican policy retreat.
Speaker Mike Johnson and other senior lawmakers gave the unmistakable impression they now consider that bill to be a Senate problem — even after Trump insisted the House take it up a third time and add on more controversial provisions, such as a near-total ban on mail voting.
Informed that Senate Majority Leader John Thune had said the House should send the Senate another revised bill, Johnson appeared surprised at a fireside chat with reporters.
“Did he say that?” the speaker said. “Careful what you wish for.”
Instead, Johnson and other House Republicans huddled at Trump’s Miami-area golf resort tried to keep focus on the upcoming midterms and other long-percolating pieces of legislation that many privately see as having a much better chance of becoming law than the SAVE America Act.
Johnson did not include that measure, which Trump termed his “No. 1 priority” that would “guarantee the midterms” for Republicans, on a list of must-pass bills he presented to members in a closed-door session Tuesday morning.
Rather, he laid out a series of wonky policy measures — reauthorizations of key federal surveillance powers and water projects, a highway infrastructure package and a slimmed-down farm bill. All are expected to end up passing with some Democratic support and are devoid of red meat for the Republican Party’s MAGA base.
Johnson told members he was working with Thune to advance the SAVE America Act. Though, the measure faces a likely immovable obstacle in the Senate’s 60-vote filibuster rule. Several top leaders refused to commit to passing it through the House a third time with the changes Trump is seeking, which include the mail voting ban many Republicans oppose — even after the president threatened Monday not to sign any other bills until it’s enacted.
White House officials separately told upset Trump loyalists in private conversations at the Florida retreat that the bill would get a vote in the Senate soon, according to three people granted anonymity to describe the discussions. But those officials suggested there would not be any move to sidestep the filibuster as some MAGA firebrands are demanding.
Top GOP leaders are instead keeping hope alive for another party-line bill that would use the procedurally complex budget reconciliation process to sidestep a Democratic filibuster. A consensus on what policy priorities should go into such a bill, however, remains elusive….
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Don’t make a big deal in the media (We don’t Want Trump getting MORE Scraed and pissed) on the FACT that Congress IS trying reassert itself after a year of Trump & Co. walking all over them with only the Federal Judges standing up to him…NOT the Supremem ‘s un til the Tariff call…
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