Thune Is Sabotaging SAVE Act While Pretending He Tried Everything: ‘It’s not enough for him to kill the SAVE America Act. Thune has to kill it while also protecting his worst RINO colleagues,’

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Thune Is Sabotaging SAVE Act While Pretending He Tried Everything

‘It’s not enough for him to kill the SAVE America Act. Thune has to kill it while also protecting his worst RINO colleagues,’ Sean Davis said.

Stuck in a do-nothing U.S. Senate, the SAVE America Act would be safer in a Canadian euthanasia clinic. 

And Senate Majority Leader John Thune has become a laughable Pawn Stars meme, effectively telling President Donald Trump and fellow Republicans, ‘The best I can do is a Screw America Act.” 

He’s helpless. That’s the South Dakota Republican’s answer to the urgent call from actual conservatives warning him that the window for critical election integrity reform is quickly closing. Just call him John “Very, Very Difficult” Thune. 

“There are no easy ways to do this,” Thune told reporters Tuesday when asked about the prospects of Senate passage of the voter verification legislation. “Believe me, we’ve examined all the options.”

Have they? 

‘Yeah, That’s Not Going to Happen’

The Republican-controlled House passed the SAVE America Act nearly a month ago, making the Republican-led Senate prioritize the legislation that requires documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in U.S. elections and photo identification to cast a ballot. Per usual, the fast-moving bill hit a brick wall. 

Originally promising the proposal would come up for a vote, Thune has spent the past few weeks whining about how hard — or impossible — it will be to move the measure to Trump’s desk. It was more of the same on Tuesday, despite the president’s threat that he wouldn’t sign any legislation but a Department of Homeland Security funding package until Senate GOP leadership gets its act together and passes the Save America Act. 

House Republicans, the bill’s Senate shepherds, Trump, and even his old buddy Elan Musk have urged Thune to work around the legislative death warrant that is the 60-vote threshold required to move the bill, using the “talking filibuster” to do it. The strategy would force Democrats —  who loathe the legislation — to hold the floor to stall a simple majority vote on the election-integrity reform. The rules would place limits on debate. Eventually the Dems would run out of steam and the vote would be called. 

Using the talking filibuster to pass the SAVE America Act would be a time-consuming endeavor

That isn’t a bug; it’s a feature

Time + public attention = recipe for success on an 85-15 issue https://t.co/QM1SK7UCR6

— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) March 10, 2026

But Thune threw cold water on the talking filibuster. 

“Yeah, that’s not going to happen,” the majority leader told ABC News earlier this week. He noted Trump’s call for adding election integrity reforms and a ban on medically transing children to the current version of the SAVE America Act. 

“The president clearly is very interested in getting the SAVE America bill up and voted on, although he wants a modified version of it, and so we’ll do our best to do that,” Thune told the corporate news outlet. 

“But the one thing I’ve said all along is, and I’ve told him and others, that I can’t guarantee an outcome. I can’t guarantee a result. If the result is only achieved by nuking the legislative filibuster, we don’t have the votes to do that and so that’s not a — that’s just not a realistic option,” he added. 

‘His Worst RINO Colleagues’

What “Very, Very Difficult” Thune didn’t say was that he’s likely running cover for RINO senators who claim they support the SAVE America Act but don’t want to have to work for it — or vote on it. --->READ MORE HERE

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