🚨 IT'S OFFICIAL: Senate Republicans will now MISS President Trump's June 1 deadline to pass ICE and CBP funding, as John Thune decides to RECESS the Senate until NEXT MONTH (TRANSCRIPT, 2 minute video)

x.com ^ | May 21, 2026 | Nick Sortor @nicksortor

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🚨 IT'S OFFICIAL: Senate Republicans will now MISS President Trump's June 1 deadline to pass ICE and CBP funding, as John Thune decides to RECESS the Senate until NEXT MONTH

Thune is a FAILURE.

President Trump is NOT going to be happy about this. Time to remove Thune!

May 21, 2026

 

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Fox Anchor Bill Hemmer: ....chaos on Capitol Hill as Senate Republicans are now set to go home until June.  That's significant because that now puts them on course to miss a June 1st deadline that was set by President Trump to pass a reconciliation funding package to give money to both ICE and CBP. For more on that, we're going to send it out to Fox News Chief Congressional Correspondent Chad Pergram on Capitol Hill. 

Chad, it sounds like things just completely fell apart today. Fill us in. What happened?

Fox's Chad Pergram: Bill, good afternoon. Here's what happened. Todd Blanche, the Acting Attorney General was summoned to Capitol Hill to meet with Senate Republicans. They had a lot of concerns about this compensation fund. And they were going to have to go through what's called a vote-a-rama, a lengthy vote series where Democrats were going to put Republican Senators on the record on every single vote.  You're voting on something related to that compensation fund, and there were some Republicans who have a lot of reservations about this too. 

I am told they have to go back to the drawing board and completely start this bill again. I'm told that Tom Cotton, Republican Senator from Arkansas had some very pointed questions to Todd Blanche and that meeting today. The same with Chuck Grassley, the long-time Senator from Iowa as well. And you could see just how glum some of the Senators were; some not even talking to the press because they just wanted to get out. 

As soon as they sent out the notice they were cutting Senators, that is the signal that this bill to fund the Border Patrol and ICE is dead in the water. The whole idea was that they were going to work late this week, get this done in the Senate maybe overnight tonight, and then move this to the House of Representatives, and the House would just have to synch up. 

As you mentioned, this June 1st deadline - that's something that was made up. It's something that the President said he wanted this done by, but they have been dealing with spending bills for the 2026 appropriations cycle since this time last  year. And so they have to go back to the drawing board. They have to re-jigger this bill. It's not going to get done right now, and even though President Trump has been on a winning streak politically, he's not getting done what he wants legislatively here on Capitol Hill as they miss that deadline. Bill?

Fox Anchor Bill Hemmer: All right, Chad. And I'm just reading some text from our Capitol Hill team here. The House also expected to leave today after their vote series at 4:30 pm. So both the Senate and the House leaving, and will be going home. Obviously, President Trump is not going to be happy about this, as you mentioned, They'll be missing that June 1st deadline.  

Chad Pergram, live on Capitol Hill. Thanks as always.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: maga; tds; thoon; trump

[brownsfan]

Is the margin too tight to dump Thune? He’s a cancer.

[dfwgator]

RINOs just signed their death warrant.

[vikingd00d]

>>John Thune decides to RECESS the Senate until NEXT MONTH

A formal recess? Meaning Trump can make recess appointments for all the positions Thune has blocked?

[Antoninus]

Voters elect Trump, Assistant Democrats running the GOP decide they know better.

Every last one of them needs to be evicted from the Senate. Cornball is a good start.

[blitz128]

Truly these rinos have no idea still of who they are messing with

[V_TWIN]

Well, we DID know he would be yurtle 2.0 so he’s just delivering on what we all expected.

Yeah the guys’ a slimeball and the pisser is, just like always, nothing gonna happen.

[Presbyterian Reporter]

Sen Thune has been diagnosed with a severe case of malingering.

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malingering
noun
Evading duty or work by pretending to be incapacitated.

[SteveH]

swamp thing
you make my heart sing
you make everything
groovy

[Mashood]

John Thune: Layabout

[bk1000]

Time then for recess appointments and EOs out the wazoo.

[Resolute Conservative]

The lure of continued kickbacks and belt-way cocktail party invites overrides that fear.

[ComputerGuy]

Manuel will sleep better now.

[Presbyterian Reporter]

“”””Time then for recess appointments and EOs out the wazoo.”””

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As in prior Senate Vacation Days, the Senate leaves one token Senator in DC to open the Senate each day. To prevent recess appointments.

[Highest Authority]

Meanwhile, Thune is rehearsing “will you have fries with that?” For his next job!

[dfwgator]

Meanwhile, Thune is rehearsing “will you have fries with that?” For his next job!

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His next job will be lobbyist or guest lecturer at a university.

[tumblindice]

A capon is a castrated male chicken (rooster) that is specially fattened for eating. SEE: GOP
Thune is a buffoon.

[Flaming Conservative]

I’m disgusted by their evil, childish retributionary retaliatory tactics. GROW UP!

[PGR88]

Thune is trying his damnedest to protect the McConnell-created RINO fiefdom in the Senate.

[Fledermaus]

I want to know that too.