The Usual Suspects (and Some New) in the Senate Are Threatening to Kill Trump's Recissions Package

Townhall ^ | July 10, 2025 | Matt Vespa |

[airborne]

....Jerry Moran (R-KS), Mike Rounds (R-SD), and Dan Sullivan (R-AK). These are the cuts Elon Musk wanted codified,.....

Maybe instead of wasting time and money on a new party, Musk could primary these RINO's.

[nikos1121]

I think the simply means that if they don’t notify it, Trump is going to move ahead with executive orders that will stop these payments from going out.

It would be nice if the Senate passes this, but Trump has the final say with the executive orders. Can anybody Verify if I’m right?

[dforest]

If real MAGA made their own party we could have left these leftist republicans in the dust of their failures and unpopularity. That was the mistake.

You can’t fix this party. Why do you think Trump would keep endorsing that sickening POS Lindsay Graham? Because Lindsay is for sale for his vote.

But there is a huge cost. And that is getting harder to hide anymore.

[Old West Conservative]

Hey https://freerepublic.com/~randfan/ where is your precious Sen. Paul who ALWAYS pops up to stop tax cuts and President Trump legislation like BBB.

Hilarious how he’s so silent now about recissions. When he’s really needed to cut spending he’s MIA and tilting at windmills LOL

[Lisbon1940]

Nobody understands rescissions. Call them deletions.

[shanover]

MAGA is dying by a 1000 cuts. I used to think the judges were the biggest problem but it’s Congress especially the GOP in both houses. If MAGA and DOGE isn’t codified, what’s the point? The next time Democrats have power everything is reversed with a vengeance.

[ByteMercenary]

If the Rs cannot pass these into law all the deadbeats that have been dismissed will be back on the Fed teat by 2027. Nothing will have been saved.

[Alberta's Child]

These guys aren’t RINOs. They’re Republicans. That means their political agenda is built on spending trillions of dollars on welfare for white people. THE END.

[FreeReign]

it's currently in jeopardy because the same group of troublemakers in the Senate —Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Susan Collins (R-ME) — are holding up the measure over concerns about cutting programs that are a complete waste of taxpayer money. What’s worse is that they’ve found new allies in Jerry Moran (R-KS), Mike Rounds (R-SD), and Dan Sullivan (R-AK). These are the cuts Elon Musk wanted codified, at least in part, before he left the Trump administration. He was arguing against the wrong bill, but we digress.

If Elon was politically smart he would work to primary these five in the Republican primaries.

But apparently he's not.

[quantim]

And EXACTLY why the GOPe will lose next year. They got a $5,000,000,000,000 debt ceiling raise and will spend every dime of it. RINOs & CO. should be the name of the party as ‘republican’ has been ruined for over a generation.

[metmom]

The next time Democrats have power everything is reversed with a vengeance.

They will whatever we do, just like they did when biden took office.

[Tell It Right]

Here's how I see the back and forth with the DOGE cuts over the past few weeks and today.

MAGA days ago: Put the DOGE cuts into law in the BBB!

Republicans: We can't do that in a recissions bill. We'll pass the BBB as is and get to DOGE cuts later.

MAGA today: Okay, now the BBB has passed, put the DOGE cuts in this new bill!

House Republicans: We can do that because it's a recissions bill.

Senate Republicans: That'd be unwise because (checking notes) (silence) (checking notes) (more silence)

[ronnie raygun]

The usual scumbags

[Dr. Sivana]

You can’t fix this party.. . . overnight.

The Communists are much more patient than we are (except maybe the pro-lifers).

As President Trump pointed out, we effectively have a two-party system. A MAGA Party would wind up like a Perot Party or the American Independent Party or even Elon Musk's America Party. Nothing would get passed, and the bad guys will take advantage.

In the 1960s, conservative southerners were largely Democrats who had plenty of seats in both the House and Senate. The ascendant hippies accepted their votes and groused when they didn't get them, but for the most part never got serious about a third party, because they stuck to their knitting taking over the Democrat Party.

We need patience, and not splinter the effort.

[Starboard]

Agree. The feckless GOP is what it is.

Yet people still keep referring to it as “our party” for some inexplicable reason. Its actually just the lesser of two evils.

[gibsonguy]

Its actually just the lesser of two evils.”

and not by much.

[ridesthemiles]

I TRIPLE GUARANTEE EVERYONE THAT NONE OF THESE WOMEN -—AND OTHERS EVER HAD ANY ACCOUNTING TRAINING.

[ProgressingAmerica]

It has always been congress, at least in the modern era of the last 100+ years.

This was the whole point of the progressive ideology to begin with was to remove the relevancy of our elected officials by making them choose to be irrelevant.

Congratulations, they are irrelevant.

Congress does not want to abolish any progressive agencies such as the Department of Education because then that would mean that congress would have to start doing the job of a congress again and they do not want to do that.

The biggest mistake we conservatives have made in the last 50 or more years was abandoning the Tea Party, which was mainly congress-focused. But nobody in the voting pool wants to fight. They want to watch football, and not be bothered by any of it until election day. Then they want 729 days off.

Freedom does not work that way. It requires constant involvement.

[ProgressingAmerica]

And its going to continue.

Watch as Trump doesn’t endorse conservatives - he just went out there and endorsed Linda Graham.

A Trump endorsement of Graham perpetuates our long term Congressional problem. I might even go so far as to say another 6 years of Graham in the senate is an absolute disaster. That seat in South Carolina is utterly WASTED on what is otherwise realistically a very liberal republican senator.