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‘Don’t see how it gets done’: Republican puts Senate GOP leader on notice
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) questioned Senate Majority Leader John Thune's (R-SD) claim that they'll be ready to pass the budget bill by the end of the week.
The legislation, which President Donald Trump refers to as the "big, beautiful bill," has a hard deadline for July 4, according to the president, but it is growing less likely.
Burgess Everett, congressional bureau chief for Semafor, spoke to Johnson on Thursday about the likelihood of the bill passing this week.
“I don’t see how it gets done,” he said. “What I don’t want is all of a sudden: ‘the bill’s done, motion to proceed.’ Hold on, time out here.”
Top lawmakers often negotiate the bill without prior review, and others are expected to vote for it. This has became an issue in the House, where a provision in the bill barred states from regulating artificial intelligence for the next decade. Some Republicans were unaware the provision was included in the bill and have indicated they would not have voted to support it with that measure in place.
Johnson told Everett that if he can't review the bill, he's a no-vote.
He and a group of his fellow senators, which includes Mike Lee (R-UT) and Rick Scott (FL), "all have to be a yes before any of us are a yes."
Republicans then headed to the White House to give a status update on the bill.
‘He will never go free’: Trump admin vows to deport Abrego Garcia
The Department of Justice vowed Thursday to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the migrant who President Donald Trump’s administration wrongfully deported to El Salvador earlier this year due to an “administrative error.”
“Our plan is that he will be taken into ICE custody and removal proceedings will be initiated,” said Jonathan Guynn, deputy assistant attorney general at the DOJ’s civil division, Notus reported.
Guynn was answering questions in a federal courtroom Thursday from U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis, among several federal district judges in Maryland whom the DOJ sued over their opposition to the Trump administration’s efforts to deport migrants to countries of which they have no connection, and without due process.
Xinis asked Guynn where the Trump administration, now planning to deport Garcia a second time, would deport him to.
“To a third country is my understanding,” Guynn said, ruling out that the Trump administration would again deport Garcia to El Salvador. “There’s no timeline for these specific proceedings.”
Garcia, who was recently charged with crimes related to human smuggling, charges he denies, was ordered by a federal judge Wednesday to be released, and is expected to be released Friday. Concerns exist, however, that Garcia could be arrested the moment he’s released.
While Guynn said there were “no imminent plans to remove (Garcia) to a third country, he reportedly didn’t push back when asked whether Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents would simply arrest him upon release. Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin told Axios, "We have said it for months and it remains true to this day. He will never go free on American soil."