Sam Gringlas
speaker
253 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 15 Sep
Sam Gringlas’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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President Trump really wants Congress to pass this legislation called the Save America Act.
It's this strict voter ID law.
It also includes a whole bunch of other controversial voting provisions.
But the thing you need to know about it is that it does not have 60 votes to pass the Senate to get around the Senate filibuster.
So
Trump has been trying to push the Senate to get rid of the filibuster and to also fire the Senate parliamentarian who has ruled that this could not be included as part of a party line vote that would only need 50 senators.
Trump also keeps trying to attach it to other pieces of legislation, including agenda items that he really wants.
Just the other week, a last minute threat from Trump ended up holding up a vote on this party line bill to fund ICE and Border Patrol that is crucial to Trump's own agenda.
So this continued push keeps getting in the way of other stuff.
Republican Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana last week said Trump has two modes.
He says he's a friend of the president and he basically is either unengaged on a particular policy issue or he wants to move at the speed of light.
And clearly on this issue, the Save America Act, Trump wants the Senate to move at the speed of light.
And they have not done that.
Yeah, Senate Majority Leader John Thune thought they had a plan here to confirm Clayton and then in turn extend Section 702 of FISA, which had just expired.
Democrats had been threatening to withhold their votes from this reauthorization unless Bill Pulte got polled as the acting director of national intelligence.
So they had this plan coming together, and then it gets blown up by Trump literally in the middle of the night.
Yep, the Save America Act is back part of this latest dust up too.
And you know, the reaction was really swift from Senate Republicans.
Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska compared the situation to startled sled dogs.
So if you didn't pick up on the analogy here, the moose would be President Trump in this situation, and the musher is Senate Majority Leader John Thune.
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