‘Exercise in futility’: GOP senators ignore Trump threats on voting priority

Rank-and-file Republicans are openly pushing back, while retiring Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) has declared he won’t back any package containing SAVE Act language at all. Defense hawks are demanding the Pentagon topline be roughly doubled before they’ll engage — a gap Thune himself has acknowledged threatens the whole effort.

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