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John Thune Offers Update In GOP Attempt To Pass Reconciliation Budget Bill
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5/13/2025
Senate Republican leaders hold their weekly press briefing.
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I think I know I think I know what they said this week we should be on the genius bill which is a
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stablecoin bill as most of you know we had a vote to motion to coach on the motion to proceed last
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week which every single Democrat every single Democrat voted against in spite of
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the fact that there were five Democrats who voted for that exact legislation when
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it came out of the Senate Banking Committee so the Democrats have now found newfound admiration
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for the Senate filibuster the junior senator from Arizona was in Pennsylvania over the weekend by
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the way he was one of the Senate Democrats who voted for the genius bill when it came
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on the Senate Banking Committee and he was out there just crowing about the fact the Senate
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Democrats have used the filibuster now four times they stopped four bills via the filibuster and so
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pretty remarkable and honestly that the Democrats now are in love with the Senate filibuster and given
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the fact that every single Senate Democrat either voted for or campaigned in favor or I should say
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in favor of getting rid of the filibuster so it's a pretty remarkable turnaround not that hypocrisy is
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something that's new in this town but this seems to take it to a whole new level so and since we're not
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doing that we're going to move forward on nominations and confirm a lot of President Trump's nominees that's
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the process that we've undertaken and in the lieu of having a genius bill available for consideration on
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the floor and I would point out with respect to that subject that this is the first president that
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hasn't had a nominee that has been approved by voice vote or unanimous consent at this point in a in a
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Senate going back if you believe this to the Ford administration to the Ford administration so the
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Democrats have opted and chosen obstruction they've chosen blocking they've chosen delay as their means
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of kind of trying to manage the institution these days but we're going to in spite of that continue to
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press forward we're going to continue to move the Republican agenda which starts with getting the
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president's nominees into place as quickly as possible so that is the that is the agenda for this
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week and at some point hopefully the Democrats will come back to the table on the genius bill and we'll get to
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the point where we can put it back on the floor unfortunately we didn't have that opportunity
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this week because they chose to filibuster it last week
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Senator Brossom no okay yeah some of your Republican colleagues are voicing concerns with the House product on
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reconciliation whether it's Medicaid whether it's phasing out some of the clean energy tax breaks whether
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it's not doing enough to reduce the deficit how are you responding to these concerns and what is
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the plan in the Senate will you take up the House bill will you address something on a parallel track
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we are coordinating very closely with our House counterparts at the committee level at the
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leadership level and we know they have to get 218 votes and so they're going to do what it takes to get it
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done in the House and when it comes over here we will be prepared for various contingencies obviously
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one of which could be taking up the House bill and offering a Senate substitute but we'll see what
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ultimately they're able to get done but I think I feel very good about about where we are where they
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are and where ultimately we're going to be on that bill as well are you comfortable with president
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Trump taking ownership of this Atari plane and then possibly using it and then in the
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post-presidency as well all we know about that I think at this point I've said this before and I
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believe it's true I don't think there's anything official out there this is a hypothetical and I'm sure
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that if and when there is it it's no longer a hypothetical I can assure you there will be plenty of
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scrutiny of whatever that arrangement might look like well again I mean I just said there will be plenty of
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scrutiny there are lots of lots of issues around that that I think will attract very serious questions if
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and when it happens at this point all we've heard about is is something that might be a
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I think it could be your take on these Democrats going to this ice facility in Newark
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obviously you know members under one section six have you know protection here to conduct
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oversight but the idea that they might be arrested they might be sanctioned is that proper to talk about
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in those terms well I mean I think everybody we're all subject to the laws of the land and everybody has their
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rights under our first amendment to express themselves and people avail themselves of that
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opportunity on a daily basis in this country but they need to do it within the confines of what's lawful
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you think do you support president Trump's plan on prescription drugs the executive order well I it's an
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executive order my guess is that it'll be the subject of probably multiple lawsuits and I think the courts will
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probably have something to say about it but all I said before and I think is any new anything new in
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this proposal as in many of the others proposals the president's made this is something he passionately
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believes in it's something he's talked about for a long time and so you know he's trying through
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executive order to make some headway on lowering the drug prices for people in this country particularly
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seniors and and again we'll see how it how it plays out but I'm quite certain that there will be lots more to
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say about that because I suspect that it's going to be the subject of litigation for some time
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thank you all
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