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The United States Senate confirmed Todd Blanche as attorney general, passed a continuing resolution to keep the federal government funded through December 11, and then adjourned for a five-week summer recess early Saturday morning — leaving the SAVE America Act, the most significant election integrity legislation to reach the Senate floor in a generation, sitting unfinished on the table.
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) saw what was happening and refused to go along quietly. "It's not lost on me that this agreement may have been designed to make it more difficult for me and others to force a vote on whether to adjourn or recess," Lee wrote on X Friday night, after formally objecting to the unanimous consent time agreement leadership used to choreograph the Senate's exit. "Regardless, I'm not on board with that plan — not with all that's at stake and all that remains undone." Lee had spent weeks demanding that Majority Leader John Thune cancel or delay the August recess until the SAVE America Act — requiring proof of citizenship to register and photo ID to vote in federal elections — was passed. He forced a roll call vote on adjournment, the first such move in decades. Nearly two dozen Republican senators had signed on to back him.
They lost. On a simple voice vote, the Senate adopted the motion to adjourn. Leadership brushed off the rebellion and headed for the exits. The SAVE America Act, after months of failed cloture votes blocked by Democrats under the 60-vote filibuster threshold — the most recent a 53-47 defeat in March — will now sit dormant until senators return from vacation in September. Thune's rationale was predictably establishment: if there's no clear path to 60 votes, why cancel recess? He didn't ask the harder question — why a Republican majority, after years of promising election integrity, still can't find a way to deliver it.
The Senate did manage to confirm Blanche, a milestone — Trump's DOJ has operated under an acting attorney general since January 2025. The continuing resolution prevents an immediate government shutdown. But the priorities on display this week speak for themselves. The chamber moved heaven and earth to process dozens of executive nominees, pass Lindsey Graham's Russia and Iran sanctions bill by a bipartisan 86-11 margin, and lock in a funding bill that punts real budget decisions past the midterms. Election integrity — the issue Republican voters have been demanding action on for six years — got a symbolic voter ID amendment vote in March, a lot of floor speeches, and a plane ticket home. Lee is right. This isn't over. But the question voters should be asking is why their own party keeps engineering outcomes where it never has to be.
Who's country is this?
Technically, it's not a country. It is a union. A union of "states."
State is fungible with country, and there is no argument with a state / country leaving a union - BREXIT comes to mind. and never mind the crap about Lincoln killing 400,000 Southerners to retain the South's considerable wealth after the North depleted itself building
canals and railways (none of which were in the South) . The victors write the history books.
I'm was an ardent patriot until Washington wore me down.
Call them back and cancel the recess!! Not like they care about what we the people think. Save act, term limits, no stick trading, no more slush funds for them!!
Who is going to call them back?? They listen to no one, especially not their constituents!
The filibuster needs to GO!
You get what you tolerate.
I keep seeing there are 11 senators who wanted the break, and 24 who supported canceling the break. that only makes 35 senators. Who are the 11 RINOs and who are the 24? I can only find the names of 12 or 13.