What a moron! You're the penny, Senator. Squished.
Posted on 06/18/2026 5:40:08 AM PDT by cotton1706
Republican senators are growing tired of the White House throwing curveballs into things they want to get done.
For example, many Republican senators want a now-lapsed surveillance law that allows intelligence agencies to spy on foreign threats to be reauthorized.
The problem? They need Democratic support to overcome a filibuster in the Senate.
President Trump has now twice thwarted efforts to win over that support.
The first time he named Bill Pulte, the controversial head of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac who had no intelligence experience, as acting director of national intelligence. Democrats and Republicans alike howled in protest.
Trump backtracked by formally nominating Jay Clayton, a more acceptable nominee to both parties, for the role at the end of last week.
But hours before a confirmation hearing for Clayton, itself quickly scheduled, Trump changed the game again, suddenly announcing he was delaying the nomination and demanding senators attach his sought-after election security legislation to the intelligence reauthorization.
One Republican senator, granted anonymity to speak candidly, said there is widespread frustration among Republicans with Trump’s surprise move.
“Because we get things on the track, and then you know, somebody throws something off, puts a penny on the track, and derails the train,” the senator said. “It’s not that easy to get 53 people going in the same direction. So, yes, it is disruptive to the process.”
It’s far from the first time Trump’s last-minute moves have derailed the plans of Republican senators.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
They're not used to being pressured to actually do things.
Oh yes, The Hill being more like the National Enquirer, lol.
>>Republican senators are growing tired of the White House throwing curveballs into things they want to get done.
I imagine the White House is tired of RINO establishment senators sabotaging everything Trump wants to get done.
The SAVE Act should not be “controversial”
What? Is this author suggesting President Trump is telling the Democrats to filibuster?
or its President Trump doing what needs to be done and telling Senate Republicans “i can play this game too”....the fact they have not made the SAVE Act front and center, especially after the BS in LA, shows how the senate republicans are cowardly capitulates...
Your track is Newsome’s high speed rail track. It’s a fraud. It’s expensive. It doesn’t work and it goes no where anyone want to go.
If the gubmint does not have FISA 702, there is no point in scraping/collecting then saving all of our communications and meta data....
Agreed very much so with your observation.
One Republican senator, granted anonymity to speak candidly
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take your pick:
<> tillis
<> turtle
<> Cassidy
<> cornyn
<> Murk
Change the filibuster back to a “physical filibuster”- Make these old turds bloviate on the screen as to why they are not voting for something
Amen. Nothing is preventing the spooks from spying on foreigners. FISA is about the ability to spy on Americans in America.
If they are concerned about foreign threats arising out of people IN America, expelling dangerous foreigners from the US would make spying on them legal...
The problem? They need Democratic support to overcome a filibuster in the Senate? This is false. The “Old Republican Guard” will not nullify the filibuster in order to pass the laws they need, and are perfectly content with never passing anything. They are still getting paid and their benefits.
The only ‘victory’ anybody cares about is the SAVE act and these scumbags are doing everything they can to not pass it.
Pink purses at 10 paces .
The “SAVE” Act is not as popular as some people here think it is. While public support for Voter ID is very high, once the details of the Act are explained (proving citizenship criteria and requirements for in person registration), public support erodes to well less than 50% support for passage. When people here state that the public overwhelmingly want the SAVE Act passed, they are either lying or ignorant of the actual multiple polls on this issue.
If the House had passed a less stringent registration requirement, this law would have been passed already. They chose to go for a more restrictive bill and unfortunately that has doomed its passage in the Senate.
FU “The Hill” - RINO victories.
The President ISN’T DOING A DANG THING. It’s the citizens of this country who does the voting. Man, that trump has magic, I guess. The hill is propaganda for the DNC and an enemy to any and all Republicans even the citizens. And these Senators aren’t something special, they put their pants on the same way the little folks do. Also, they better remember they don’t OWN OUR GOVERNMENTS OR THEIR POSITIONS. We the people gave it to them and now we are going to take it away. Also, they are NOT OUR MASTERS.
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