March 30, 2026
John Thune's TSA Mess
Timothy Birdnow
Well Tiny finally grew a pair!
The GOP Leadership Mess the DHS Funding Debacle Is Exposing, and Where We Go From HereThe GOP Leadership Mess the DHS Funding Debacle Is Exposing, and Where We Go From Here
What Thune did was cut a backroom deal with Chuck Schumer that did not fund ICE for any enforcement activity but which he figured would pass the House because enough squishes could go along with it. He never consulted Mike "Tiny' Johnson nor the President - he just cut the deal then tiptoed out of town after a late night voice vote.
Johnson isn't having any of it and is refusing to bring this version up to the House for a vote.
This is proof John Thune needs to go if any was needed.
Now the Senate is in recess for two weeks and so nothing will be done for at least that long.
"The leadership in the Senate..on both sides of the aisle, has a real disgust for this president and House leadership, because they didn't even have the guts to call Speaker Mike Johnson and let them know what happened...the stereotype of Congress is - and it's well deserved - is that we pass stuff in the in the dark of night because we don't have any guts. And that's clearly what's shown in the Senate leadership."
Rep. Rep. Tim Burchett (TN-02)
This is why we may lose Congress, precisely because of such cowardice and good-old-boy tactics.
Steve Scalise tells us what is so bad about the bill:
"One of the things that we had real concerns with is it actually defunds over 25 percent of the baseline operations of the Department of Homeland Security. Twenty-five percent.
...
"The Senate bill they sent over, by the way, defunds about 7,000 positions at the Department of Homeland Security. And, Jon, keep in mind, we’ve had three Americans killed just last week by people here illegally. We’ve had four terrorist attacks on our home soil here in America just in the last month.
. . .
"he bill they sent us, keep in mind, will zero out - defund things like cybersecurity operations, human trafficking investigations."
And Senator Tom Cotton admitted the House bill is DOA but it could allow the Senate to pass funding via reconciliation.
Trump's move to pay the TSA out of discretionary funds has taken the leverage from the Democrats. What is going to happen is there will be a call this morning for a vote and if no Democrat objects it will pass. Most of the Senate is out on vacation and this is just a ceremonial session, but the GOP could "steal" the vote here. But if just one objection is heard then the matter rests until the full Senate returns from their Easter break.
Mike Johnson done good.
UPDATE:
The Effing Senate Republicans did not introduce the House Bill in the pro forma session, and so won't until Thursday at the earliest. Why not? Because John Thune wants time to figure out a way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory here and keep his "compromise" in place, a backroom deal designed to end ICE efforts to deport criminal illegal aliens.
BTW the pro forma session is to keep the Senate in session for one reason - to stop the President from making recess appointments. With Republican control of the Senate this should not be happening; it's John Thune screwing over his own Party's leader.
How can we save this country with total jackasses like John Thune in positions of authority?Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at 09:18 AM | Comments (4) | Add Comment
Post contains 602 words, total size 4 kb.1 I guess Thune is majority leader on the strength of his knowing best how to create a mess for the GOP.Posted by: Dana Mathewson at March 31, 2026 12:04 AM (gVePp)
2 He learned it from his mentor, Mitch McConnell. The long con, er, g;ame.Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at March 31, 2026 02:45 AM (oflqW)
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