Trump pumps brakes on Senate budget plan, delaying GOP SAVE America push

Senate Republicans left D.C. without passing the SAVE America Act as Trump intervened on the budget reconciliation vote over concerns it would fail.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.), President Trump and Senate conservatives reached a deal Friday night to set aside a vote on a budget resolution and defer action on much of the SAVE America Act until after the August recess, settling a fight that had divided Senate Republicans for weeks. Conservative Sens. R

Sixteen Republican state attorneys general are backing President Donald Trump’s call for the Senate to urgently pass a budget resolution, arguing the package would advance election-integrity measures, provide additional resources for the military, and deliver economic assistance to American farmers.