Posted on 11/19/2025 8:38:06 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) on Wednesday signaled an end to further Democrat shutdown shenanigans with a move to go back to what he called the "old-fashioned way" of funding the government.
Speaking to members of the press, Thune said that the "path to a stronger, safer America" is getting funding bills passed through the traditional appropriations process "instead of continuing resolutions." The Schumer Shutdown, which brought chaos to American airports, cut funding to SNAP benefits, etc., ended after 43 days.
🚨NOW — Senator John Thune says government is going to operate the OLD—FASHIONED way!
By passing appropriation bills instead of continuing resolutions that "are not good solutions for the country"
The Senate is BACK TO WORK and busy in preparation for January 30th." pic.twitter.com/ANBJqCdky9— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) November 19, 2025
"I think, at least here in the Senate, we have a lot of things, as you know, we have to get done," Thune said. "And of course, we want to get the appropriations process moving again. It got slowed down during the shutdown, unfortunately, and as a consequence of that, we've got a lot of ground to make up. But as you all know, we did pass the three appropriations bills … MilCon-VA, Ag, and Leg Branch."
"So three of the 12 are now law, and those three we got across the floor of the Senate before August, which is the first time that's happened since 2018," he added. "So, as you all know, we are very committed to regular order on appropriations. We think that's the best way to fund the government – rather than having an omnibus bill written in the leader's office or a year-long CR."
"Going through a normal appropriations process where the committee marks up bills, has input from all the members on the committee, reports them to the floor, and there's an open process, transparent process on the floor, we think is the best way to fund the government," Thune continued. "And so, the challenge now is to get the next package ready to go – starting, we've got the defense appropriations bill ready…. we're also trying to clear four other appropriations bills to put together a minibus that we could act on here in the Senate, so we're working through those holds."
The Senate Majority Leader urged his colleagues who are actually interested in having the government funded through the traditional appropriations process to "try and work constructively to get these bills up on the floor."
"To let us get on them and have an amendment process, and try and process them in a way that enables us to fund the government through the appropriations process, as opposed to, as I said, either a continuing resolution or an omnibus or something like that," Thune said. "Those are not solutions that are good for the country, and they're certainly not good for this institution or for the House of Representatives. We want to do it the old-fashioned way."
No dam kidding. About time one of them finally said it. Unfortunately at this point its just words/lip service. I will never believe them until they actually do it.
RE: An old fashioned move against the Dems....
And Tom Homan can go to this as Phase Two after whiny people complain about rubber bullets and non-lethal tear gas. Move on.
I used to have a post card of Robert Stack smiling broadly and aiming his weapon at an angle and the caption was Happy New Year.
This is something conservatives have been demanding for years.
How DID Thune come up with this idea?!!
I’ll believe Thune will do ANYTHING when I see it happen.
You ain’t got the stones, Thune.
Schumer Shutdown Shenanigans sure sucked.
Bluff.
Big time bluff.
There is no way Thune has the cojones to pass a constitutional budget. There’s some trickery going on somewhere.
How many decades has it been since we had a budget?
EPSTEIN!
EPSTEIN!
EPSTEIN!
It believe theblabtimemwe had a. regular budget was maybe 2004.
He’s done a damn good job. Find a Dem to go after...like Jeffries or Schumer...
It is about time they do their job.
Agreed. Trump/Thune/Johnson will make it happen. Mitch The Turtle in the middle gummed up the mess, giving Trump little cooperation and the Donks far too much.
It’s clear that McConnel was a BIG PROBLEM.
His Chinese wife certainly had an influence on the jerk.
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Can’t wait until Mitch is GONE.
Nice goal Mr. Thune. Please see it happen. Then do away with the blue slip nonsense so the Schiffs can no longer lord over appointments.
Thune is a squish and the fecal matter flows freely from his mouth. They're all FOS.
Doing what was law to begin with is not new. CRs were never legal to begin with nor were those massive omnibus bills. They were scams run down Americas throat.
Look at debt vs CRs which started in 1977.
I thought it was already a law that they had to present an actual budget to be voted on each year....
Correct me if I got it wrong.
The funding bill at the heart of the matter only requires a 51% vote in the senate.
However, the motion to bring about the vote on the funding bill can be filibustered and requires 60 votes.
To bring regular order, the motion subject to filibuster must be eliminated
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