President Trump said Monday he has a "good relationship" with Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) despite repeatedly hammering him over the upper chamber's inability to pass the SAVE America Act, the GOP elections bill that would require ID and proof of citizenship to vote and sharply curtail mail-in voting.
"It's fine, it's fine.
He's got to get his job done.
I have a good relationship with John Thune, he's just got to get his job done," he told reporters on Air Force One. "You got to get the SAVE America Act.
Or better than that would be the filibuster.
If you terminate the filibuster, everything happens.
If you don't terminate the filibuster, only bad things will happen."
Asked whether he wanted Sen. Thune replaced as Republican leader, the president said, "I haven't even thought of it."
Earlier in the day, President Trump posted on Truth Social calling on Sen. Thune to cancel the chamber's upcoming summer recess and keep pushing the SAVE America Act.
"John Thune should not allow the United States Senate to 'leave town' until it passes The Save America Act or, far better still, TERMINATES THE FILIBUSTER, where Republicans can then quickly pass everything they ever dreamed of, including a full and deep throated SAVE AMERICA ACT, the Budget, and the ever looming Debt Ceiling disaster, 1929!" he wrote. "The Dumocrats will do it on day one, and can't believe how lucky they got with this Senate leadership.
Remember, stupidity always brings LOSING & DEATH!"
Sen. Thune has repeatedly conveyed to the president that the SAVE America Act does not have enough votes to pass in the upper chamber, nor does he have the votes to eliminate the filibuster and pass it on a party-line basis.
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