Zach Schermley
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first heard Aug 2026
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Just a couple of weeks ago, Johnson said he agreed with the president that this was his number one priority, but actually getting it through Congress is just gonna be a significant challenge despite the president's insistence that it needs to happen soon.
And that's the case for a number of reasons, but I keep going back to a comment that Senate Majority Leader John Thune made outside of his office
I believe it was last week that I was standing there for while he was talking to reporters, and what Thune said was at some point in the recent weeks and months, he sat down with about 20 Republican senators, members of the White House legislative team sat down with those senators and tried to gauge support for a number of the president's priorities, eliminating the filibuster, that's the 60-vote threshold
The Senate passing the Save America Act, eliminating blue slips, which are a special privilege that senators have when it comes to judicial confirmations.
And Thune said that 15 Republican senators said behind closed doors to White House officials, we are not supportive of these things.
And if you don't have 15 on board, that is just a recipe for disaster in the Senate.
It certainly has.
And it's one of the reasons why we have seen certain Republicans, people like Marjorie Taylor Greene in the House, who really ran on this so-called America first anti-interventionist agenda at odds with the president, why we've seen them pushed out of Congress.
I mean, this really, according to critics of the administration's actions in the Middle East, kind of flies in the face of that isolationist policy that Trump
ran on long ago and was something that was a priority, certainly, of a lot of Republicans who said that previous administrations, Republican and Democrat, were spending too much time focusing on issues abroad rather than here at home.
But we have seen a lot of Senate Republicans in particular take a beat and repeat a lot of the administration's talking points about the necessity of trying to solve
the problem of nuclear proliferation or potential nuclear proliferation in the Middle East since the Iran war started.
And, you know, there have been a number of Republican lawmakers, House Speaker Mike Johnson among them, who have not even referred to this conflict as nuclear.
a war, talking about it more as a military operation in order for them to continue supporting the conflict.
And it is certainly an area of a lot of division, I think, even just internally within the GOP, especially as the president has kind of struggled to bring it to a close.
You know, I was looking at some internal Republican messaging last week that showed that Senate Republicans were being advised by leaders within the party and their staff were being advised by leaders within the party to say that they were, quote, very concerned.
about the rising prices of gas and that they wanted to see fuel prices going down.
And I think that is a demonstration of how leading into the midterm elections, this focus on affordability really does remain persistent.
And across both the House and Senate Republican conferences, leaders are saying that they want their lawmakers and their Republican candidates
to express sympathy with folks who are concerned about these skyrocketing fuel prices, right?
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