{"id":172313,"date":"2026-07-30T21:04:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T21:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/172313\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T21:04:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T21:04:16","slug":"the-senators-who-want-to-cancel-recess-over-the-save-america-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/172313\/","title":{"rendered":"The senators who want to cancel recess over the SAVE America Act"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pressure is growing against Senate<\/a> Majority Leader John Thune<\/a> (R-SD) to keep the upper chamber in session until it passes the SAVE America Act<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With just a handful of legislative days left until the Senate\u2019s scheduled August recess, 14 senators have either called for the cancellation of recess or expressed support for staying in Washington until the GOP\u2019s flagship voter ID and proof of citizenship bill is passed.<\/p>\n

Led by Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), Sens. Rick Scott (R-FL), Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), Jim Banks (R-IN), Ashley Moody (R-FL), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Roger Marshall (R-KS), and Ted Cruz (R-TX) have called to cancel recess.<\/p>\n

Sens. Darline Graham Nordone (R-SC), Bill Hagerty (R-TN), Katie Britt (R-AL), Todd Young (R-IN), Eric Schmitt (R-MO), and Dave McCormick (R-PA) have expressed support for staying in Washington.<\/p>\n

A 15th GOP member, Sen. Jim Risch (R-ID), has not directly called for the cancellation of the August recess but said in a statement that he was \u201ccommitted to doing whatever it takes\u201d to make sure the Senate votes on the legislation.<\/p>\n

Lee, the sponsor of the SAVE America Act in the Senate, began a maelstrom over the weekend after he posted on X that he would \u201cobject to any effort to put the Senate into recess in August\u2014at least until such time as the Senate has passed the SAVE America Act\u201d and requested a roll call vote.<\/p>\n

\u201cDo not assume you have my consent,\u201d Lee warned Thune. \u201cYou do not.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI stand with @basedmikelee,\u201d Scott wrote on X. \u201cI will vote to stay in session unless we have passed the SAVE America Act. The American people expect us to deliver. They deserve secure elections.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Senate typically adjourns through unanimous consent, but if Lee or another senator goes to the floor to object, they could force a roll call vote. However, it is not clear if a roll call vote would be successful, as a motion to delay the August recess would need at least 50 senators to support it.<\/p>\n

When asked about calls to stay in session over the August recess, Thune told reporters that while he is \u201cfor anything that we can do to get the SAVE America Act passed,\u201d staying in session was not going to change the fact that the legislation does not have enough Democratic support in the upper chamber to pass the filibuster.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe question I always ask is, \u2018What is your picture of victory at the end?\u2019\u201d Thune asked. \u201c\u2019What is the endgame here?\u2019 And if, in fact, staying here for the month of August means that we assume, at some point, there are going to be 10 Democrats to cross over and vote for the SAVE America Act, I think we\u2019d stay here till Christmas. That\u2019s not going to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump has joined the chorus of Republicans pressing Thune to keep the Senate in session, saying the majority leader should not allow members to leave town until the SAVE America Act is passed.<\/p>\n

The president also reupped his call to terminate the filibuster, which requires 60 votes to advance legislation in the upper chamber. Thune has repeatedly said there are not enough votes to do so.<\/p>\n

Republicans are attempting to clear several high-profile pieces of legislation before they leave for their August recess, which is scheduled to start the week of the 10th.<\/p>\n

That includes a Russia and Iran sanctions bill in honor of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, and a continuing resolution to fund the government past a September deadline. Republicans are also working on a budget framework for a third party-line budget bill, through which the party hopes to pass parts of the SAVE America Act.<\/p>\n

Thune told reporters Wednesday that the Senate was weighing whether budget reconciliation was a viable path forward to passing parts of the SAVE America Act, and that if it is, he was open to staying in Washington.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIf we conclude that there is actually a chance to get an outcome or a result there, I\u2019m open to doing it,\u201d Thune said. \u201cI think all of our colleagues would be open to staying around here if that were true. But I think that we have to see, first of all, that can be proven to be the case.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I don\u2019t think, you know, having a Congress Senate sitting around here for the month of August in quorum calls or having to vote on Democrat amendments is probably a good use of anybody\u2019s time. So we will see and see where the conversation goes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pressure is growing against Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) to keep the upper chamber in session until…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[142],"tags":[70299,475,1193,26280,13902,494,479],"class_list":["post-172313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-john-thune","tag-darline-graham-nordone","tag-john-thune","tag-mike-lee","tag-rick-scott","tag-save-america-act","tag-senate","tag-washington-d-c"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/117010960381556883","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}