{"id":15084,"date":"2026-07-23T22:11:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T17:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=15084"},"modified":"2026-07-23T22:11:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T17:11:30","slug":"trumps-patience-with-thune-is-running-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=15084","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s patience with Thune \u2018is running out\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.politico.com\/30\/44\/baf46f5640d686c285374417e249\/u-s-congress-5-98.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said at a briefing Thursday that President Donald Trump&#8217;s patience with Senate Minority Leader John Thune is wearing thin, as Republicans struggle to advance his voting overhaul legislation before lawmakers leave Washington for the August recess.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Look, the president spoke about this directly yesterday,&#8221; Leavitt said when asked about Thune and the stalled SAVE America Act. &#8220;His patience is running out,\u201d Leavitt said \u2014 rhetoric that escalates warnings Trump had already begun delivering on social media.<\/p>\n<p>While House Republicans have largely aligned themselves with Trump&#8217;s legislative priorities, Thune has been unable to rally his caucus to move the legislation forward, saying repeatedly that he simply does not have the votes. Trump has repeatedly pressed Thune to get rid of the filibuster in order to move the bill forward, a rubicon Thune has said there isn&#8217;t support within the conference for crossing.<\/p>\n<p>And with each passing month Trump\u2019s frustration has grown, taking to rallies and Truth Social to vent his displeasure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Senate is a place you send things when you want them to die,\u201d Trump said in Georgia on Wednesday. \u201cWe\u2019re not going to take this any longer, we\u2019re not going to take it. I\u2019m trying to be nice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Thune \u2014 clear-eyed about the realities of the conference\u2019s Senate margins \u2014 suggested in response that the White House should \u201cget on the phone\u201d instead of \u201cpointing fingers.\u201d &#8220;Well maybe [Leavitt] or somebody else ought to get on the phone and get the votes, right?\u201d he told reporters on Capitol Hill. \u201cIt&#8217;s 50 around here, and so instead of, you know, pointing the finger at Republicans, they might think about going after the people who are stopping it on the floor, which is the Democrats, and if there are Republicans that they think are gettable, get on the phone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The House on Wednesday passed the latest version of a reconciliation bill that includes $10 billion to incentivize states to adopt portions of Trump\u2019s voting overhaul, called the SAVE America Act.<\/p>\n<p>Trump wants the legislation to add proof of citizenship and photo ID requirements to voting, as well as dramatically cut back on the use of mail voting across the country.<\/p>\n<p>But the bill is unlikely to meet the parliamentary standard for reconciliation bills in the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He wants to see as much of the SAVESave America passed as possible by the August recess,&#8221; Leavitt said. &#8220;He knows that&#8217;s what the American people want to see passed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Leavitt pointed to Trump&#8217;s rally on Wednesday as evidence of public support of the bill, saying proposals such as voter ID received &#8220;very loud applause&#8221; from the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The everyday Americans \u2026 want proof of citizenship in our elections,\u201d Leavitt said. \u201c &#8220;The House did its job. The Senate needs to do its job, too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i>Gregory Svirnovskiy contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said at a briefing Thursday that President Donald Trump&#8217;s patience with Senate Minority Leader John Thune is wearing thin, as Republicans struggle to advance his voting overhaul legislation before lawmakers leave Washington for the August recess. &#8220;Look, the president spoke about this directly yesterday,&#8221; Leavitt said when asked about&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static.politico.com\/30\/44\/baf46f5640d686c285374417e249\/u-s-congress-5-98.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-political-news"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}