U.S Senate Majority Chief John Thune speaks to reporters following the weekly Republican coverage luncheon on the U.S. Capitol Constructing in Washington, D.C., on June 10, 2025.
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Senate Majority Chief John Thune stated Monday that lawmakers in his chamber will stay in Washington, D.C., till they go President Donald Trump’s “huge, lovely invoice.”
“Senators return to Washington at the moment and we’ll stay right here till this invoice is handed,” he wrote in an op-ed on Fox Information.
The feedback are an indication of the growing strain Thune faces to win over Republican holdouts who nonetheless oppose the megabill, forward of a self-imposed July 4 deadline.
Thune wrote that he’s “assured” the Senate will get the invoice “throughout the end line.”
Congress was set to be on recess the week of July 4, that means this week was successfully the deadline for lawmakers to go the package deal and get it to Trump’s desk.
However because the deadline nears, Thune remains to be drawing pushback from his convention, together with a gaggle of fiscal hawks who’re involved the package deal will explode the nationwide debt.
For example, Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., has repeatedly criticized the invoice, warning it will add trillions of {dollars} to nationwide deficits.
“What we must be doing is bending the curve of deficits down. On this reconciliation course of, we’re not even coming shut,” Johnson stated on CNBC’s “Squawk Field” earlier this month.
Regardless of the blowback from some GOP lawmakers, Thune has repeatedly signaled that he intends to stay to the deadline.
Thune stated final week that he was hopeful his chamber would take up the invoice by the center of this week, Politico reported.
The White Home has additionally repeatedly stood by the July 4 deadline.
“It is crucial the Senate returns this historic piece of laws on July 4th!” White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt wrote final week on social media web site X.