John Thune is something else, man.
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Republicans control the Senate, the House, and the White House. The American people handed them the keys after years of open borders chaos, and what does Senate Majority Leader John Thune do when it's time to deliver actual funding for ICE and border enforcement?
He lets the whole thing stall so Congress can head off for A N O T H E R weeklong recess.
They'll now miss Trump's June 1 deadline for his Homeland Security funding bill.
Plans for a major funding bill apparently collapsed amid "unrelated policy disagreements."
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A bit of context from NPR:
Congress is set to leave town for a weeklong recess without passing a Republican-backed measure to fund immigration enforcement for the next four years amid dissent from within their own ranks over a federal fund to pay people who claim to have been politically persecuted.
Oh no, Trump is creating a slush fund for people who were persecuted by the Obama/Biden government! How dare he? Everybody panic!
The near-term collapse of the legislation, which is separate from that reparations fund, came as tensions between President Trump and some Congressional Republicans spilled into the open over fears that the president's focus on vanquishing rivals and testing loyalty could cost them in the midterms.
Here's the Fox News report about this disaster:
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Enjoy the time off, John Thune. The rest of us will be working.
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