House Freedom Caucus Revolts As 'SAVE America Act' Stalls in Senate

Townhall ^ | 26 June 2026 | Cameron Arcand

[Merrick]

The House Freedom Caucus is publicly calling on the Senate to return to work, as the upper chamber is now in a two-week Independence Day recess. President Donald Trump and many Republicans still want to find a way for the SAVE America Act to get passed in the Senate.

“The Senate sucks. I’m just going to come out and say it - they suck. This is not hard!” Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) said during a Thursday news conference.

The federal elections bill already cleared the House, but it is struggling for support among a handful of Republicans and all Democrats in the Senate. Trump visited Capitol Hill on Wednesday to advocate for the proposal in a lunch with Republican senators.

“The president did the right thing yesterday by canceling the bill signing, unless the SAVE Act was attached,” Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) said.

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TOPICS: Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: america; onvacation; save; senate

[Merrick]

The Senate sucks...

[ClearCase_guy]

The Senate hates us.

[KingLudd]

We vote for them and they defy us, despise us, hold us in contempt and utterly hate us ... and that’s just the repukes.

[Democrat = party of treason]

USELESS TRAITORS

[newfreep]

John Thune is stalling on purpose.

The only question is “Who is he indebted to or is paying him for his treason”?

John Thune is the US version of Keir Starmer, UK treasonous traitor.

[Jonty30]

I hope you guys get your SAVE act.

The Democrats are RINOs are going to go all out this year to get control of Congress.

[rktman]

What would the Republicrats support that?

Patriotism over ‘hateriotism’! 😊👍🇺🇸

[Jonty30]

I think it will pass, but it may be too late for 2026 to implement. I think that is what the strategy is.

[thinden]

doesn’t this open the door for trump to make recess appointments?

[for-q-clinton]

It’s already too late. You know a judge would rule it is too close to an election to make everyone register and prove citizenship.

[dware]

The Senate sucks

Well, but mostly, the Senate GOP like it up the rear. I think it's hilarious any of us still believe we're voting our way out of the mess. Absolutely laughable.

[ridesthemiles]

IF ANYONE MOVES BETWEEN NOW & NOV—_THEY MUST RE-REGISTER ANYWAY

[Bratch]

The Far Left Can Crush Republicans in Midterms if They Just Give Professional Republicans Everything They Want

June 26, 2026 | Sundance

This is a very unusual election year.  This year, more than any other election year, the Democrats have two major weapons they can deploy to crush the Republican party in every election:

• First, give the Washington DC Republicans everything they want.

• Second, be completely silent about it, and control their crazy.

Again, this is a weird election year; I’ll explain.

If the Communists and Progressives, together with all the various subsects under the tent of ‘Democrats’ can have enough self-discipline to follow this guide – they will crush almost every republican candidate and win every key race.  It will be the biggest electoral wipeout since 2010, but they also have to be absolutely silent over the next several months.

If the Communists and Progressives can put their crazy into a box for a few months, they will defeat their opposition.  Democrats need to take a long summer vacation, stay completely silent, avoid anything political and surface again in late October.  That’s it. That’s all they need to do.  They can put every nickel of donations and fundraising in the bank and exit the 2026 midterms with billions in saved funds – But they’ve got to hide their crazy; I mean really hide it.

The professional Republican Party in Washington DC is completely disconnected from the American voter, and more importantly from their base of support.  This creates a very unusual dynamic.  First, let me explain what Republican priorities the Democrats need to support:

♦ Republicans will demand more funding for Ukraine.  So, Democrats should give it to them. Two-thirds of the American voters are against the stupid spending on this nonsense proxy war against Russia.  If Democrats quietly, silently, just let the GOP fund their proxy war, voters will punish them.

• Democrat voters will not care about this, and GOP voters will sit home in frustration.

♦ Republicans will demand re-authorization of FISA (702).  Again, two-thirds of the American people do not support warrantless surveillance of American citizens.  Again, the Democrats should just give them this demand and then remind voters this is the Washington DC Republican priority.

• Democrat voters will not generally care about this obscure issue, and the GOP base will again stew in frustration. 

BONUS: Democrats then get to weaponize the authority when they get power again and target republicans creating more frustration.

See how easy this is?

There are many more policy points just like these.  Why?  Well, basically, this is a year when the professional republican priorities in Washington DC are entirely disconnected from their base voter.

♦ The Republican voters have asked DC Republicans for a few simple things like:

1. Voting integrity (SAVE act);
2. Fast track migrant deportations;
3. Confronting lawlessness (Antifa et al);
4. Arrests for criminal corruption and transparently visible violent activity;
5. Spending priorities that focus on Americans’ first, not migrants or foreign interests.

That’s essentially it.

That’s the proverbial “big ask” that is just too much for the Washington DC Professional Republican party to accept.

Washington DC Republicans are fighting every voter ‘ask’ and telling voters their requests are ridiculous and stupid.

♦ DC Republicans always hate republican voters. There’s a long history of this.  As a consequence, the only thing that will motivate the republican voters in ’26 and ’28, is the insanity of the Communist left. Republican voters have nothing to vote ‘for‘ because all their ‘asks’ are just, well, being ignored.

If you are a Democrat this is easy, Republicans are handing you the election by keeping their base voters frustrated and at home.

However, this also requires the professional Democrats to do something challenging for them; don’t be crazy.

The only thing the communist/leftists need to do in order to win the election, is not be crazy. Actually, just shut up – don’t talk about all that stuff in their head – bank all their donations, do nothing else. Don’t even campaign. Just be completely and entirely quiet.

If the Communists can find enough self-restraint to do that in every election this November, literally just go on vacation until late October, they will crush the Republican party for a decade without spending a dime.

♦ Republican voters are exhausted.

They are exhausted from asking for the easiest and simplest things and getting rejected and dismissed by the totality of all Washington DC Republican political leadership.

Obviously, this level of DC disconnect is not accidental.  The Republican preference to be in the minority is well known and very well documented.  We all understand how each wing of the UniParty operates.

• The left-wing demands power. 
• The right-wing demands money. 
• Democrats use money to get power; Republicans use power to get money. 
• Donors to the left-wing support the ideology; the ideology of the right-wing is dependent on donors.

This is the difference between the two wings of the DC UniParty.

On the bright side, Communists often struggle to rein in their extreme behavior, so there’s a chance the Democrats could stir up enough wild ideas to drive Republican voters to turn out in large numbers against them.

[SOURCE]

[Fledermaus]

But I’m told by others here that if we don’t vote for them the Dems will be worse.

How?

Screw them all.

[RetiredArmy]

The damned RINOs in the stinking Republican Senate need to be nuked!!! HOW about those states with these stinking RINOS kicking their @$$e$ OUT OF THE SENATE!!! Stinking RINO Dimocommie Republicans. Worthless tit$. Later, I will tell you how I feel about these worthless people!!~!!

[Fledermaus]

No.

These assholes (all of them IMO) will have one Senator that is still around to gavel the Senate in for a few minutes and then gavel out. Thus it is deemed “In Session”.

Jerks. My Senator did it. Hawley has done it.

[Fledermaus]

Then let the pretend Republicans lose.

[SteveH]

i wonder if trump could call the senators back to dc until they have debated and voted on the save act?

[Dacula]

It takes only 5 Senators to vote out Thune.

Actions speak louder than words.

[FlingWingFlyer]

The trouble is too many Señators are too busy setting up conjugal visits with their illegal alien invader friends in the detention centers. Little Miss Chrissy Van Hollen started that crap. Now they’re all doing it.