Senate Votes 52-47 — Schumer FLIPS OUT After Thune Pulls A Fast One

Welcome back to Explain America. This is

your host, Kyle Becker. Senate Majority

Leader John Thun is causing a lot of

controversy because he has actually

advanced a measure that a lot of

Americans want. So, how is he doing it?

Well, it's through a procedure called

reconciliation,

and it could end the partial government

shutdown. But a lot of conservatives are

scratching their heads and wondering

about John Thoon's leadership and what

type of priorities he has. Before we get

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Sense Journalism. Now, the US Senate has

advanced the measure to fund the

Department of Homeland Security,

including Border Patrol and ICE, and

they're looking to do it through budget

reconciliation.

This would provide the Republicans with

the opportunity to pass the bill even

though the Senate is evenly split. It

could go to a 5050 vote and then JD

Vance as the president of the Senate

could cast the tiebreaker. This is

something that Kla Harris did when she

was the vice president under Joe Biden

because it also had a split Senate

during the Biden years. So this budget

reconciliation maneuver is causing some

eyeire in the Republican ranks because

many people are wondering why aren't

they doing something similar with the

Save America Act. Now the Save America

Act cannot be passed through

reconciliation as far as many observers

think. Uh, of course, Senator John

Kennedy proposed that they might as well

try. And, uh, there's a lot of people

wonder why Thun is keeping the Senate

parliamentarian on even though she is

blocking and obstructing some measures.

Whereas the Democratic Party, of course,

they have no qualms against putting

their own fellow traveling

parliamentarian in the Senate or even in

the House to try to get their measures

across. and they have uh over the years

passed some very controversial bills

including the affordable care act which

has led to unaffordable health care

prices in some states. And uh this is uh

another example of how the Democrats

play hard ball while the Republicans

well they don't even bring their bat.

They they sit there and stare as the uh

opponents just uh throw fast balls down

the strike zone. So, this is one of the

things that a lot of Republicans are

wondering. Why don't you just nuke the

zombie filibuster at the very least?

Make it a talking filibuster. At least

there will be a snowballs chance in hell

of getting the Save America Act through

or at the very least just a voter ID

amendment. That is something that's

supported by over 80% of the American

people. Uh it should be a no-brainer, a

sitter at the net. But John Thun can't

even spike that. So why not just remove

Thun at this point because he doesn't

deserve to be a leader of anything. He

is not fighting for the American people.

He is not representing the conservative

base. He is not advancing the America

first agenda. He can't even get recess

appointments for President Donald Trump.

That is unprecedented. So, a lot of

conservatives knew from the very

beginning when Thume was selected by

McConnell and his people to lead the

Senate, uh, they were going to get led

into the swamp, uh, into the middle of

nowhere and stranded there along with

their America first agenda. So, why was

he even agreed to by some of these

so-called conservative senators? Well,

at least Senator Mike Lee uh has been

somewhat outspoken about th and he is

now saying that uh at least one senator

is pretending to go along with the Save

America Act, but he is actually against

it and uh why would they be against

voter ID? Why would they be against

election integrity? Are they cheaters

also? Uh that has to be a question that

comes to our minds because we've accused

the Democratic party on the right of uh

being against election integrity because

they intend to cheat and rig elections.

So why aren't all Republicans on board

with ending this practice, making

America a modern country in terms of its

election practices? Because as you know,

176 nations on Earth have voter IDs to

vote in elections. Why can't we get on

board with that? Well, weighing with

your thoughts about this, what do you

think about John Thun's leadership of

the Senate? Should he be spending more

time trying to pass the Save America Act

than going through all of these

procedures to put the uh DHS funding on

the front burner? Uh, I'll leave that to

you to answer and always appreciate you

watching and weighing in at Explain

America.