Trump calls on Republicans to pass third reconciliation bill that includes Save America Act

thehill ^ | June 10 | 06/10/26 11:09 PM ET

[RandFan]

President Trump on Wednesday endorsed a third $350 billion reconciliation bill, urging Congress to “IMMEDIATELY” pass it with the Save America Act included.

“I am hereby calling on Republicans in Congress to IMMEDIATELY advance and pass the forthcoming $350 Billion Reconciliation Bill (Recon 3.0) — which, at the request of our Great Department of War — will include THE SAVE AMERICA ACT as well,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.

“No games, no delays, and no weak compromises! Do this ASAP,” he added.

His comments come a day after Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee Chair Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) cast doubt on a third reconciliation package.

Collins said a third bill was a “terrible risk” and is likely to create funding “instability” for defense efforts.

Still, Trump said the measure is critical and suggested it was the “ONLY path to the full $1.5 TRILLION DOLLAR Military Budget our Warriors need in order to build THE ARSENAL OF FREEDOM.”

Trump said funds would go toward developing the Golden Dome, manufacturing F-47s and B-21s to “supercharge our ammunition stockpiles.”

His message comes after a recent analysis found it would take years to replenish advanced weapons used by the U.S. during the Iran war.

The president also urged lawmakers to include the controversial Save America Act, which has struggled to pass in the Senate.

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[Alberta's Child]

So, what’s your credentials to allow you to make that statement?

It doesn't take a genius to recognize a bankrupt country with an over-extended military.

[Freee-dame]

I absolutely cannot understand why Thune will not establish the standing filibuster for the SAVE America act. Actually if the Senate was at all interested in good governance for American citizens, they would always require a standing filibuster. Instead, they just go on vacation after vacation while not allowing President Trump a single recess appointment. Most senators are just scum.

[MinorityRepublican]

The U.S. does not need a $1.5T defense budget.

No. But at the same time, the MIC is a necessary evil. Otherwise, we would be more like Europe.

[kaktuskid]

Why Thune is against it? Smithfield who hires mostly illegal aliens.

[ansel12]

The over-extended use of the military is policy and something that can be brought to rein when we can agree that it is an over-extension, but what our country’s military needs money for is to better prepare for the incredible consumption of major war, a future that seems unavoidable.

We need warehouses full of weapons and missiles and the manufacturing base to make them, and to continue making them during a draining soul killing war.

What we should have known but re-learned anyway from the Russian invasion is how all consuming major war is, we need vast amounts of everything and the factories and the shipyards and the steel mills and the chemical plants and the chip making plants and the mining to make it all, that means billions and billions of dollars into infrastructure and long term dependable defense contracts.