When the Senate returns July 13, hope for “nothing”. It’s the best we can do.
Trump’s Meeting With Senators Turns Fiery Over Iran War
The Wall Street Journal reports Trump’s Meeting With Senators Turns Fiery Over Iran War
President Trump on Wednesday engaged in a fiery clash over the Iran war with one of his top Republican critics, just hours after the president blindsided lawmakers by insisting they pass legislation to tighten voter-eligibility rules before he would sign a bill focused on lowering housing costs.
The lunch meeting with GOP senators was called to bring attention to the SAVE America Act, which Trump has deemed critical to winning the midterm elections but lacks enough support to pass. Inside the room, Trump quickly turned the conversation to Iran. Trump and Sen. Bill Cassidy (R., La.) shouted at each other about the war and the senator’s recent vote to rein in the president’s war powers.
Trump, who engineered Cassidy’s defeat in his primary last month, called the senator a “loser” and told him to sit down, according to people familiar with the exchange. Cassidy replied that no one tells him to sit down.
The president also ripped into Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R., Alaska) and chided Rand Paul (R. Ky.), people familiar with the matter said. The two senators voted with Cassidy, Sen. Susan Collins (R., Maine) and most Democrats to pass a nonbinding resolution Tuesday that would direct Trump to remove U.S. troops from hostilities against Iran. The Republican-controlled House passed the measure earlier in the month.
The contentious gathering came as Trump and GOP senators have been increasingly at odds, with the White House largely ignoring Congress for months on the Iran war and Trump targeting some veteran lawmakers for defeat over what he deemed insufficient loyalty. More recently, Trump derailed plans to extend a critical surveillance program and install a new intelligence chief.
Trump also gave Sen. Dave McCormick (R., Pa.) grief for missing the war powers vote, people familiar with the meeting said. McCormick had been on Air Force One, flying back from an event with the president in Pennsylvania, instead of at the Capitol. When Murkowski entered the meeting late, Trump quipped that he had just been saying nice things about her.
“Nice to see you, Mr. President,” Murkowski replied.
With that, the Senate had enough BS from Trump. The Senate voted unanimously for a timeout.
Please reflect on this. Unanimous includes Mike Lee and all of the other die hard SAVE act supporters.
They just voted to go home.
Timeout Called
- The Request: Senator Thune asked for unanimous consent for the Senate to stand adjourned.
- No Objections: Not a single senator—including prominent conservative holdouts—objected to the request.
- The Timeline: The chamber will be on recess and will not hold any further voting sessions until July 13.
- The Context: This recess occurs during ongoing political pressure regarding President Trump’s legislative agenda and demands on Capitol Hill.
Question for Senator Rick Scott
Here’s the answer. There are none.
The Pertinent Facts
Fools Rush In
Go for Nothing
Nothing is the best we can do.
Passing Any New Reconciliation Bill Is Difficult
To understand why, please see Trump’s Demand on SAVE Act Makes Passing Any New Reconciliation Bill Difficult
There are not enough votes for the SAVE Act, or to end the filibuster, or to get rid of Thune.
A pocket veto occurs to kill a bill when there are fewer than 10 days left in the legislative session.
Here we are discussing auto-passage if Trump does not sign in 10 “session” not calendar days.
But the clock is not running because the Bill was never formally presented to Trump.
Finally, there is another point. Trump can make recess appointments if there is a recess longer than 10 days. However, the Senate can block that by holding pro-forma sessions every three days, which they will do.
So, the housing bill stays in limbo? Couldn’t the Senate present the bill at any time? Thanks.
I believe both houses of Congress have to sign and present to the president
And we’ve officially passed the fewest bills for one Congress since the civil war. What a good sign.
Wow, and cockblock Mitch McConnell isn’t even in charge anymore.
A little tidbit from Politico today:
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/06/26/congress/gop-agenda-trump-tenuous-00977716
“Johnson, for his part, focused on the positive. He told reporters at the Capitol after meeting Trump that he and the president are “on exactly the same page” about stopping “any blockade in the House.”
He also said Congress would be transmitting the housing affordability bill it cleared this week to the White House, after the president abruptly reversed course Wednesday on a signing ceremony for the bill and demanded Senate passage of the controversial election overhaul first.”
Johnson is Don’s captured stooge, so he wouldn’t be presenting the bill unless Trump intends to quietly sign it, maybe on a Friday evening at 7PM when no one is paying attention, or let it become law by not vetoing it.
That’s my attempt at reading the tea leaves.
In a hundred different ways, America’s version of democracy has failed. Evidence is everywhere but $40 trillion in federal debt, going to $60 trillion in 10 years, is enough to make the case. What standard of living we have left is based on massive amounts of borrowing that grows worse each year. There are other democracies that have done better but when America implodes, we’ll take down the world, including China. I wish I could put up charts here but the system doesn’t allow it. I don’t care what Trump wants because he’s such an obvious idiot, I don’t want to waste my breath on him. But the Senate and House have also lost their way, and the Supreme Court isn’t far behind. Money has corrupted everything.
The senate went home last July. They have accomplished nothing since the Big Beautiful Buttkiss. Ineffective and Irrelevant due to internal strife caused by the chief of corruption. This group of clowns has until November to pull the circus together and do something and based on current math it ain’t gonna happen.
The 60 day cease fire period is gonna be up before long and they will be arguing about that until the mid-terms.
Then after the mid-terms, likely a lame duck president and an impeachment process which will occupy government for at least a year and perhaps two given how much corruption has taken place and will need to be investigated with no help from department of justice, better known as the Department of getting even with those have insulted Donald Trump.
meanwhile Rome continues to burn.
When are people going to wake up and stop protecting the Chief Pedophile of the United States? I read today that Paxton is ahead in Texas! A criminal who is a pedophile protector! This is who Texans want? Are they all rapists and pedophiles? I am so done with this place. You get what you deserve.
Humans, in Texas, int he US, or anywhere, are herd animals to rival any sheep or dog.
Texas Dems keep running dweebs for Senate. Skateboarding “Beto” and now James Talarico? He looks like he’s in high school. Can’t they find someone who looks like Jon Tester?
Fool is right on one thing though, the Senate really looks to be in Democrat hands at this rate. It absolutely needs to be, given that the whipped GOP can’t bear the thought of dealing with their mistake. When Biden turned into a senile corn cob, at the very least Democrats sidelined him instead of making him more important.
I’m still calling that Trump has no intention of recognizing the results of the midterms because in his mind he has 300% support in every poll and can easily take over. I wish I got exit plan, but only a moron thinks he can run from this kind of lunacy.
Can’t imagine this will be a good year for the stock market.
They sidelined him so much that they all supported him as the nominee until the debate proved he could no longer be the nominee as he would lose. So, yeah, they sure sidelined him all right.
And your other foolish comment–won’t recognize the results. What does that even mean? “Not like them” recognize or “officially refuse to acknowledge them” in some dictatorial fashion, the former being tough to stomach for him and the latter being conspiritorial fodder for those wanting to paint a fictional story in advance, one which will never happen no matter how many times it is uttered.
There are zillions of things to take him and the previous administrations to task for policy wise but to pretend that the left held the last Administration in check is revisionist at best and twisted at worst. They sidelined him so much they left the border open for 4 years and told us we needed new money and new legislation to close it. As a voter for that party, which you appear to be, did you vote for “the corn cob” only to be sidelined by a bureau of unelected officials whose names were unknown and unaccountable? Did you also forget that he was ALREADY impaired when he ran in 2020 and we were introduced the term “lid” as they put a lid on his campaign many days by 2pm? That is, as a voter you should vote for and get, for all 4 years, a functional accountable candidate for better or worse. We’re getting that now. We may not like it but he’s in front of the cameras 24×7, it’s clear he’s the one in charge (though you may wish he wasn’t), and that the democratically elected candidate is the one making the statements and votes–not the lid-protected candidate nor the “sidelined” one as you mentioned.
Stop pretending Biden only became impaired in those final days. He was impaired from day 1 and you voted for it and you didn’t care. The high-horsed virtue signaling is tiring. Trump has enough policy bungles to attack without making tired cliche arguments while shielding Biden in hindsight.
This is not a defense of the current President but an attack on this rotten philosophy that anyone not-named-Trump is good. And as for the stock market, it’s already a historically good year it’s just that after 2009 we’ve had insane money-printing and outsized results such that most clowns expect these returns, historic in nature, to continue perpetually, as if 17% annually vs 0% interest rates for nearly 11 of those years should just continue. Per Google search it’s returned between 9 and 11% as of today..assuming it neither rises nor falls, it’s right at its nominal average…no imagining needed.
As for an MPO45v2 exit-plan, I don’t see a place on earth where one can run from this debt-fueled madness. So I like you will finish it out here, on this blog, in this overpriced house.
The words are coming right out of Trump’s own mouth when it comes to elections. He’s done nothing but cast doubts on every election he doesn’t like and tried to overthrow the government once already.
Oh look, he wants to do it again. How do you think midterms will go when this starts happening at polling places? Peacefully, I sincerely hope. Trump is a delusional man who very clearly thinks he has the support to do a big January 6th, and will undoubtedly try increasingly stupid actions to save his ass from the sacking he’s getting in any free and fair election come November. If the GOP wants my respect back, they can start by sacking every fossil who allowed the party to get this rotted out.
And as for Biden, you are VERY mistaken if you think that post is defending him. He and his party let a 36 time convicted felon, child rapist, woman rapist, who knows what else-would-be election thief wander around and run for even more elections. All so him and his party of rich snobs could play at having a little victory lap for themselves while rubbing voters’ faces in it. The minute that cobweb brained coward failed to put Trump behind bars was the minute he became the second worst president in living memory and perhaps ever.
Democrats had chance after chance to put Trump and his pedophile pals in a prison where they belong. They didn’t. In fact, they sat on that evidence and tried to tell the public that anyone so much as uttering the word ‘Epstein’ was a frothing nutcase who’s probably a far right weirdo. Now we have undeniable proof that there is a gigantic group of pedophiles actively subverting the nation. Surely that’ll be healthy for our long-term outlook.
The only thing propping the stock market up is a textbook redux of the dot-com bubble with even less substance. At least the internet led somewhere, AI isn’t going anywhere that these companies want their investors to believe it’s going. In fact…
I’m an expert in it with a PhD so let me go into it a bit. Incredible technology? Sure, but it’s not worth trillions for any single company. See, they want to monopolize what is basically air: It’s easy to replicate, can run on your personal computer with little resources, and can be customized for businesses at low cost. Especially for all of the actual use cases AI is good at like automating small tasks, editing documents, ect. The reason big AI companies are handing out free samples like candy and taking hundreds of billions in losses is because they, like the companies in the dot-com bubble, are trying to buy customers who won’t stick around when the actual bill comes due. We’ve already seen huge customer loss for AI services that started billing by token, expect more of that soon. Especially as smaller LLM tools saturate the market and people realize they can just have a little helper running on their own computer that doesn’t give their data to random companies.
The entire rest of the American economy, the real one, is ailing badly. We manufacture less and less, we make less and less of substance period, and we discover less and less now too because we decided to handicap our R&D. Even service jobs are drying up, all while gargantuan heaps of money get fed into a ball room that’s set to be destroyed pronto. It’s gonna take years to climb out of this, and probably a lot of playing nice with China.
Then you have the zoomers who can’t get jobs, move out of their parents’ houses, or do much of anything. Now they’re getting mad and electing democratic socialists as a result, and I don’t see that wave cresting any time soon. Everyone is scrimping to get by and all of the recession lights are on outside of stock market tulip mania. Keeping at this long enough will ensure the DSA becomes a major faction in the politics of the USA, because DINOs and the GOP have both run out of time to do anything at all.
What a surprise? Cowards always hide when the going becomes challenging. DC is one of the biggest cess pools to be found anywhere in the world.
It’s amazing America has made it 250 years. I’m pretty confident it won’t last another 250 years. The financial numbers are ignored but in time they will demolish what’s left of America. The country runs on money and we’re short on that.
meanwhile: ‘Full mission success’: Pentagon says Golden Dome aces first live-intercept testhttps://www.firstpost.com/world/full-mission-success-pentagon-says-golden-dome-aces-first-live-intercept-test-14025601.html
“When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‘Present’ or ‘Not Guilty’.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
I read somewhere lawmakers made 20 grand each during the last shut down. So is this paid time off. Sick leave. Personal mental leave, unpaid time off. How are they putting this on their time sheet. . Republican senators are running from a problem they help create back when they stood up for their party/more like their parties power over whats was right in multi impeachments. Pull your panties back up go back to work and deal with it. Not to pass any of trumps agenda just to learn a lesson. I keep hearing how citizens votes matter when voting for a candidate. The you voted for him argument. The republican senate needs to be reminded their votes matter also. And there are consequences to their actions also.
It would be awesome if when trump rants on someone if they told him to sit down and stfu old man. If you dont like it quit hiding behind your secret service and step outside on the grass and well have our own little mma match.
Least bush had quick enough reaction to dodge a shoe and he joked about it later.
Here’s what we are missing: actual voting for the SAVE act. The Senate won’t even hold a vote because they don’t want Republicans to have to go on record for having a position. This is why people keep getting reelected: nobody knows what they stand for, because they only ever have to vote on popular items.
Here is a way to look at it. Trump has to use ex orders to get things done. Why because his policies are either unpopular/ illegal/ unsound/ or often a combo. The Republican politicians are trapped. On one side by a bunch of fox news conservative media machine voters. Who are figuring out( or not) they have been duped all these year. Both are disgruntled. On the other side they have to please the wealthy who support their campaigns. Then the third side is the moderate and independent voter who they depend on at least till targeted ai generated gerrymandering take effect .
“We’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas.” -Typical republican scumbag.
At least the government is supplying some entertainment along with sticking it to us. 90 billion for another government war that nobody wants except Trump and Israel?
What is the US for if not for doing what’s best for Israel? Look at what our reality is.
Brief summary:
Trumps missteps are so unpopular coming into the midterms that even his Republican sycophants are telling him to f off
it’s a long time in politics until midterms – I’m beginning to wonder if Trump does a 180 degree strategy change this summer – a political TACO. He’s done it before and pulled it off. I’ve learned never to count him out , he will do anything to stay in power/feed his narcissism
Voters have short memory.
Trump thinks the only things worthy of respect are those that came from him, even if he impulsively thought of them 5 seconds ago, and they contradict previous statements he made. And, anyone who contradicts him, in this moment, is completely unworthy of respect, and is forever a defector. This is a truly pathological personality. Overlay his cranky senility now. His confrontations are becoming truly hilarious, and outright scary. He is doing compounding damage to the system, the one central to our survival. The Senate is perhaps finding its backbone at last. It is the one branch at this moment that has that culture and capacity. He wants to demolish and replace that, like so much else. But it would end up degraded, corrupted, diminished, like a damaged ecosystem, like his pool.
Get rid of the filibuster and you’ll have universal health care in 3 years, and massive tax increases to pay for it.
Let’s just light our country on fire instead.
Like it’s not on fire already?
Get ride of the filibuster and the republicans will be in charge forever.
LOL! Didn’t think of it that way. I just saw the Dems getting in and finally getting to pass their agenda.
Why don’t we take it out of our constantly losing military?
one can only hope we start taxing billionaires and corporations when you get to 100 million you win and the rest goes to the society that helped you get there
The Orangutan gets cranky because, whenever he’s contradicts him, he soils his diaper and needs a change. Unfortunately, he’d be better off in a nursing home, though it’d be hell for the caregivers, and so would we the people.
“This is a truly pathological personality” – nailed it!
Mish,
Great, lucid explanation of Senate chess, in the comments.
I see the same dynamic with Trump’s general trajectory: he will keep pushing, insulting, and demanding more, testing any limits or norms, until he finds the barrier that will confront that. This is the psyche of a kid who was never given proper guidance: never kept in guardrails of any kind, or told “no.” He has made that into the USA’s saga partly too, until we have found the floundering zone and been exposed in vulnerabilities in several areas. Finally the Senate endured enough arrogant insults to find something of a voice, where, I guess passive-aggressively:
“Nothing is the best we can do.” He can’t primary everyone! Thanks!
The 🍊 has the face of a demon disguised as human.
Hes buddies with roger stone. That was his guidance.
You notice the loudest congressmen are the ones who lost their primaries. I’m hoping for a lot more fireworks. Burn MAGA burn!
Doesn’t this mean the Housing Affordability bill that’s on his desk will die by default? Pocket veto?
It will pass by default.
Even if it’s never been formally presented to the president?
A pocket veto occurs to kill a bill when there are fewer than 10 days left in the legislative session.
This is a 10-day auto passage rule.
But the clock is not running because the Bill was never formally presented to Trump.
Finally, there is another point. Trump can make recess appointments if there is a recess longer than 10 days. However, the Senate can block that by holding pro-forma sessions every three days, which they will do.
Good explanation. Not covered by School House Rock.
As a Canadian kid that’s exactly how I learned about how US legislature worked.