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While you were sleeping, Senators Thune (R), Schmitt (R), Moreno (presiding) (R), Schatz (D), and Kim (D) passed the amended DHS funding bill (TSA, FEMA, etc.) by voice vote while setting new FY2026 appropriations to $0 for key enforcement pieces: mainly ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations and CBP's "Border Security Operations" under U.S. Customs and Border Protection. They removed key parts of the border patrol funding, focusing on stripping “between ports of entry”, which is the heart of CBP enforcement. This includes overtime, between ports of entry, patrols, interdictions, field operations, related surveillance & response activities, on top of just shredding ICE. The amendment explicitly makes the entire contents printed under the heading “U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement” in the explanatory statement table have no force or effect. (The Big Beautiful Bill will cover some of this through 2029.) You might be thinking “but Josie, five senators is not a quorum, that sounds unconstitutional!” Correct. The Senate acts under the presumption of quorum unless somebody specifically “raises a point of no quorum”. Obviously, they can count and 5 is nowhere near 51. They knew they were acting in bad faith when they weakened enforcement funding and refused to provide the new top-up for the guys arresting the foreign pedophiles. Five senators sacrificed our country’s security to the alter of Democrat Wokeness, in hopes that none of them may have to miss their spring holiday. We all Schoolhouse Rock. The amended Senate bill goes back to the House, to either be passed (and sent to the President) or amended again (and sent back to the Senate). What a shitshow. Their vacation isn’t set the start until Monday. Have they adjourned early without passing The SAVE America Act? Who the hell knows at this point. I guess we’ll find out today. But now, I’m more worried than ever that The Senate will betray us again in the dead of night with a bipartisan knock off quorum, but this time, with the SAVE America Act.

Here’s an internal medicine residency program in Texas where all 13 residents are foreigners. Six of the thirteen are from Pakistan.

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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.