Cleta Mitchell

Those little “citizen” protests last weekend?? Look at this…

We now have a list of the NO KINGS financiers: - Arabella: $79M - Warren Buffet: $16M - Ford: $51M - Rockefeller: $26M - Soros: $72M - Tides: $45M $294,487,641 MILLION

If the Senate can voice vote DHS funding at 2:20 AM with 5 senators on the floor without funding ICE... why not the SAVE America Act? Election integrity isn't worth losing sleep over?

This morning, the Senate passed a bill to fund many functions of the Department of Homeland Security, but it did not fund ICE and only partially funded CBP. I opposed this bill. The Democrats have made clear to the American people that they will always put illegal aliens first. This Democrat DHS shutdown was never about reforms to ICE, which the Democrats rejected over and over again, it was about amnesty for illegals and completely halting all deportations. The Democrats want to create an America with open borders, no justice against illegal aliens who kill and attack Americans, and total amnesty for the millions of illegals that they let flood into our country under the Biden administration. This is not hyperbole. It’s the truth, and Democrats have not denied it. Senator Peter Welch said on CSPAN that this entire shutdown was to start a conversation about amnesty. Then, Senator Chris Murphy said on MSNBC that the ‘undocumented’ are the people whom Democrats care about most. It is unacceptable that Democrat members of the United States Senate, who took an oath to represent American citizens and protect the United States, have so openly turned against the interests of our nation to serve those who break our laws. The time for a reckoning has come, and Republicans must now take radical action to protect the United States against the threats posed by radical Democrats. That means fully funding ICE and CBP and passing the SAVE America Act NOW. Republicans must also make sure this never happens again. Members of Congress never should have been allowed to keep getting paychecks while the people keeping our homeland secure were suffering. Congress needs to take up and pass my No Budget, No Pay Act to make it federal law that Congress won’t get paid if a single federal worker isn’t due to a shutdown. We need to get ICE and CBP reopened fully as soon as possible. It’s time for Republicans to get to work on reconciliation immediately and put an end to Democrats’ embarrassing political theater once and for all. I will not give up until we get it done.

The Senators claiming the Save America Act should be passed via budget reconciliation are the same Senators who are “morally opposed” to nuking the filibuster because it would “undermine bipartisan consensus” by lowering the 60-vote threshold to a simple majority. If these Senators truly believe the Save America Act is important enough to justify bypassing the 60-vote threshold and passing via reconciliation, then their stated opposition to doing so by eliminating the filibuster on principle rings hollow. The more likely reality is that they know the bill’s core provisions would not survive reconciliation scrutiny, allowing them to posture as supporters while ultimately blaming an unelected Senate Parliamentarian when those provisions are stripped out. In other words, they are willing to embrace a simple-majority pathway when it provides political cover—but unwilling to take the direct, accountable step of eliminating the filibuster to actually pass the bill they claim to support. We are sick of the political grandstanding from our elected officials. Either the Save America Act is critical enough to bypass normal Senate procedures, or it isn’t.

Hello Senator Thune, At 3 AM on Friday, March 27th, in a near-empty chamber, you passed a bill by voice vote that excludes all funding for ICE and CBP. Let me repeat that: voice vote. No roll call. No record of who was there. No accountability. Just you, Barrasso, and a handful of senators shuffling paper in the dead of night while America slept. You could have demanded a recorded vote. You chose not to. You could have held the line for five more days until the House returned. You chose not to. You could have used the same procedural tools Democrats have used against you for 40 days. You chose not to. Instead, you gave Chuck Schumer exactly what he asked for, DHS funding minus immigration enforcement, and called it a win. Then you walked to the cameras and blamed the Democrats. Let's be precise about what you did: 1. You caved to a demand Democrats made on Day 1 of this shutdown. Forty-one days of supposed hardball negotiation, and you settled for their opening offer. 2. You handed them a template. The next time Democrats want to defund any agency — ICE, CBP, or anything else — they now know: just shut down DHS and wait. John Thune will fold at 3 AM. 3. You punted to reconciliation. "Good possibility," you said. Not "we will." Not "guaranteed." Just maybe. Meanwhile, ICE operates on fumes from last year's bill with no certainty of future funding. The precedent you set: You have argued for months that the filibuster is sacrosanct. That the 60-vote threshold protects minority rights. That we cannot bend Senate rules for policy wins. But at 3 AM on Friday, you bent every norm that actually mattered: • Voice vote to avoid accountability • Empty chamber to avoid debate • Midnight deal to avoid scrutiny • Immediate recess to avoid questions You'll bend the rules to avoid a fight. You just won't bend them to win one. What you've actually accomplished: Democrats demanded ICE restrictions. They got ICE defunded. Not reformed. Not restrained. Defunded. And you're out here tweeting about how Democrats are the "Defund the Police" party while you just voted to defund border enforcement at 3 in the morning. The question you should answer: Why did this deal have to happen at 3 AM? Why couldn't it happen at 3 PM, with cameras rolling and every senator on record? You know why. Because you didn't want your voters to see what surrender looks like. Here's my message: We saw it anyway. Stop hiding behind "Democrat obstruction." You're the Majority Leader. You set the schedule. You control the floor. You chose this outcome. Own it.

Hello Senator Thune, Let's expose what you're really doing with "reconciliation." You announced it yesterday, eleven months after the House passed the SAVE America Act. You're not trying to pass this bill. You're trying to kill it in a way you can blame on process. Here's how we know: Reconciliation requires the Senate parliamentarian to rule that provisions are "budgetary." Citizenship verification is not budgetary. Photo ID mandates are not budgetary. The parliamentarian will gut the bill. Then you'll shrug and say "we tried." We see through you. Meanwhile, you WON'T use the tools that actually work: Rule XIX limits each senator to two speeches per legislative day. Keep the Senate in continuous session, file cloture daily, and the filibuster exhausts in ~12-20 days. You dismissed it as "complicated." Because if you tried and succeeded, you'd have to actually pass the bill. Harry Reid nuked the filibuster in 2013 when he wanted results. Mitch McConnell changed Senate rules THREE times and canceled the August recess. Chuck Schumer used reconciliation within months on a 50-50 Senate. You have 53 seats. You've changed nothing, canceled nothing, and waited eleven months. Now let's talk donors: • Goldman Sachs: $150K to you - top H-1B user • Google: $75K - lobbies against E-Verify • Meta: $72.5K - Zuckerberg's FWD[.]us pushes mass immigration • Wells Fargo: $90K - banks undocumented immigrants Same corporations sponsor Punchbowl News, where you sit for "Fly Out Days" which nobody watches except Congress staffers and K Street lobbyists who pays premium bucks for legislative intelligence. Their reporter then telegraphs to the audience the SAVE Act "will ultimately fail." Corporate money flows to you AND to the outlet that frames your inaction as inevitable. We see the loop. You called grassroots anger a "paid influencer ecosystem." YOU are the paid influencer. You take the wrong side of a 80% issue because you are indistinguishable from a K Street mouthpiece, and an ineffective one to boot who won't bend the rules to get anything passed. What we want: 1. Force a real talking filibuster. 2. Stop hiding behind process. 3. Pass the SAVE America Act. YOU will become the reason that we will have our butts kicked in midterms. Not Candace Owens, not Nick Fuentes, not anyone else. You and you alone, and all because you want to make the 200 or so viewers of Punchbowl Fly Out Days happy. You're living in a K Street information bubble, addicted to the comforts and praises of lobbyists masquerading as journalists. You mistake the steak and martini dinners you get invited to as your own constituents. You are not "moderate." The SAVE America Act has 98% support among Republicans. Name one other thing that has 98% support. You are an extreme minority who prides himself on being a calm leader, when in reality you are well in the running for the most ineffective Majority leader of all time. Prove me wrong. Do the bare modicum of effort. Not symbolic. Actual effort. Cancel the recess. Get SAVE America Act passed.

The Senators claiming the Save America Act should be passed via budget reconciliation are the same Senators who are “morally opposed” to nuking the filibuster because it would “undermine bipartisan consensus” by lowering the 60-vote threshold to a simple majority. If these Senators truly believe the Save America Act is important enough to justify bypassing the 60-vote threshold and passing via reconciliation, then their stated opposition to doing so by eliminating the filibuster on principle rings hollow. The more likely reality is that they know the bill’s core provisions would not survive reconciliation scrutiny, allowing them to posture as supporters while ultimately blaming an unelected Senate Parliamentarian when those provisions are stripped out. In other words, they are willing to embrace a simple-majority pathway when it provides political cover—but unwilling to take the direct, accountable step of eliminating the filibuster to actually pass the bill they claim to support. We are sick of the political grandstanding from our elected officials. Either the Save America Act is critical enough to bypass normal Senate procedures, or it isn’t.