Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) tore into the US Senate and Senate leadership over their failure to reopen the government and the Republican Party’s refusal to execute on its mandate and pass the SAVE America Act on Sunday.
The Senate remains deadlocked on both issues due to a slim majority, but could quickly solve both by terminating the 60-vote requirement to pass legislation in the filibuster. However, Senate RINOs, including Leader John Thune, refuse to follow the will of their voters and do so.
Butchett went off on John Thune for his failure on the highly popular SAVE America Act, which would require voter ID and documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections, and for passing a garbage funding bill in the middle of the night to fund the Department of Homeland Security without funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, then ditching town.
“you, as a member of the media, ought to be disgusted to the fact they passed that thing at 2:25 in the morning, and left all the other senators kind of hanging,” Burchett told Fox’s Jacqui Heinrich, slamming Thune for cutting a deal with Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer.
“The whole deal of the stereotype of Congress is, and it’s well deserved, is that we pass stuff in the dark of night because we don’t have any guts, and that’s clearly what’s shown in the Senate leadership,” he added, calling for Thune to be ousted.
“I think they need to get some new leadership over there, in my opinion.”