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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
John Bowden

Frustrated Thune tells Trump to ‘get on the phone and get the votes’ after Leavitt swipes at Senate over voter ID

Senior Republican senators vented their frustrations at the White House on Thursday after Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt called on the Senate to “do its job” at her second press briefing since returning from maternity leave.

The press secretary’s rebuke of the upper chamber of Congress came in response to a reporter’s question regarding whether President Donald Trump was losing his patience with Senate Majority Leader John Thune as the days ticked down to the August recess with no signs of progress being made towards the passage of the SAVE America Act, Trump’s signature piece of voter ID legislation.

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