President Trump Has Had It With Leader John Thune

Tod Starnes: Senate Majority Leader John Thune has not allowed President Trump to make a single recess appointment. Why is that? The American people deserve to know why the Majority Leader is blocking the president’s agenda. And the American people also deserve to know why Senate Republicans have not removed Thune from leadership. As far as I’m concerned, at this point every Republican senator is complicit. They’ve played games with the America First agenda for 2 years. Lots of talk. Lots of condemnation. But no action.

Jim Banks is now the third Senator to oppose August recess until the SAVE America Act passes.

Thune is working for the Democrats.

Do they have pictures with Thune with a farm animal? What do they have on him?

“We don’t need a recess. Let’s pass the SAVE America Act. It’s more important than taking a break, taking a recess!”

Thune stuck between Trump’s demands, members’ recess plans

By Stef W. Kight

Senate Majority Leader John Thune is stuck between the public, painful demands from President Trump to cancel the August recess and the pleas of members to let them go home.

Why it matters: For senators, the summer recess is next to holy. For the president, confirming his nominees is simply more important.

• “We’re thinking about it,” Thune told Axios on Monday about Trump’s call to cancel all — or part — of the August break.
• “We want to get as many noms through the pipeline as we can,” he said.

But still, August is August.

• “People are accustomed to going back,” Thune said. “This is the time of year when they go back and interact with their constituents and talk about some of the things that we’ve gotten done.”
• “I do not believe we need to cancel the August recess,” Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) said Monday. “Please wipe that suggestion off of your DNA.”
• Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) vehemently defended the extended break: “You get us for the rest of the year back here, but there’s got to be some time when we can actually be addressing the needs of our constituents back home.”

Driving the news: After Trump’s weekend post on Truth Social, leadership has made clear to senators that fiddling with the August recess is on the table.

• Thune has talked to Trump about the president’s goals and told reporters he met with the president on Monday.

The intrigue: If Thune moves forward with August votes, there is always the risk of attendance challenges.

• The Senate requires a minimum of 51 senators for a quorum— and it only takes one Democrat to force a quorum call.
• With just a three-seat margin, Republicans are “only as strong as our four weakest links,” as one senior aide put it.

What we’re hearing: The Senate is buzzing about what Thune will do, according to conversations with senators and staffers.

• Senators are likely to put on a brave face and say publicly that they are willing to do whatever it takes to accomplish Trump’s agenda.
• But trust us, both sides want to go home.

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GOP Sen. John Kennedy warns John Thune ‘being too cautious’ as Trump agenda hangs in the balance

By Samuel Chamberlain, NY Post, July 27, 2026

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) needs to get to work on passing the rest of President Trump’s agenda with fewer than 100 days to go before the midterm elections, a key member of the GOP’s rank-and-file warned Sunday.

“Look, I mean no disrespect. I love John Thune. He’s my leader. He’s got a big brain. He’s better looking than me, but I think he’s just being too cautious,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) told CBS News’ “Face The Nation,” adding that the majority leader “wants to spend the rest of our time talking with [Senate Minority Leader Chuck] Schumer about shutting down government, and the Graham Platner wing of the [Democratic] party is, his party, is not going to let Schumer agree with us.

“They already want to give Schumer a bathrobe, a Popsicle, and an early bedtime, and have him retire. I don’t think Chuck can agree with us,” Kennedy predicted. “I think he’s going to shut down government.”

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“We need to put the, the House budget resolution on the floor,” Kennedy told host Margaret Brennan. “It’s the only chance we have to get money to defense, the farmers, and to take another crack at the SAVE Act. We need to add Iran to the [Lindsey] Graham Russian sanctions bill and vote on it. We need to put the cryptocurrency market structure bill on the floor and vote on it.”

Currently, a shutdown is set to begin at 11:59 p.m. ET Sept. 30.

“That to me is what the SAVE Act is all about, and I think we can pass it … but we’re not going to know if we don’t try.”

The Louisianan’s comments came three days after White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters that Trump’s “patience is running out” with Thune.

A day earlier, the president had told supporters in Georgia to “call John Thune, he’s the leader of the Republican Party, and tell him to get this stuff approved.”

Democrats have repeatedly blocked Republican attempts to bring the SAVE America Act to the Senate floor for debate.

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Pamela Geller

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