The Do Nothing Club

The Republican Do Nothings

Meet the Do Nothing Club, the Republican Senate leadership that took a 53 seat majority and turned it into a two year nap.

John Thune, John Barrasso, Tom Cotton, Shelley Moore Capito, James Lankford and Tim Scott were dealt a winning hand. A Republican House, a Republican President and the biggest agenda in modern history. They sat on it.

Yes, they passed the Laken Riley Act and the One Big Beautiful Bill. That is the entire highlight reel, and it fits on a napkin. Meanwhile the SAVE America Act is collecting cobwebs. Trump's executive orders are still unprotected, waiting for the next Democrat president to wipe them out on day one.

Here is the part that should make every conservative furious. Republicans hold 53 seats. Without the filibuster, they need just 50 votes and the Vice President to pass anything they want.John Thune never fought for those 50 votes. When Trump demanded action, Thune whined that someone needed to "show me how this ends." When conservatives begged him to change the rules, he lectured them about Senate tradition.

Leaders find a way, and Thune found excuses. Democrats never had that problem. Harry Reid nuked the filibuster for nominees in 2013. Chuck Schumer tried to blow it up for his election takeover bill in 2022. They have no principles when power is on the line, and in 55 days they get the gavel back.

On January 3, every bill this Senate failed to pass is dead for at least two years. Every Trump order left uncodified becomes a target. Every Trump nominee still waiting becomes a hostage to Chuck Schumer.

So here is the message to the Do Nothing Club. Cancel the holiday recess and forget going home for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Work nights, work weekends and stay in that chamber until the SAVE America Act passes and the Trump orders are law.

Voters gave you every tool you needed. You have 55 days to stop hiding behind procedure, get off your ass and do the job. Should the Do Nothing Club be forced to work straight through Christmas, or have they already blown their last chance?

Source:  The Federalist Papers on Facebook

Restrictions on H-1B Foreign Workers to Combat Abuses

Trump Imposes $100K Fee on H-1B Visas

American companies are laying off their American technology workers and seemingly replacing them with H-1B workers (cheap labor)

Today, President Donald J. Trump signed a Proclamation to restrict the entry into the United States of certain H-1B aliens as nonimmigrant workers, requiring a $100,000 payment to accompany or supplement H-1B petitions for new applications to curb abuses that displace U.S. workers and undermine national security.

The Proclamation restricts entry for aliens as nonimmigrants to perform services in specialty occupations in the H-1B program unless their petition is accompanied by a $100,000 payment.

It directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to restrict approvals for petitions from aliens that are currently outside the United States that are not accompanied by the payment, and allows case-by-case exemptions if in the national interest.

The Proclamation requires employers to retain documentation of payment remittance, with the Secretary of State verifying payment during the petition process and the Departments of State and Homeland Security denying entry for non-payment for the relevant aliens and taking other relevant steps needed to implement the Proclamation.

Read about the rules... and protecting American workers.

It will not be applied to existing holders of valid visas re-entering the country. "The proclamation does not apply to aliens who: are the beneficiaries of petitions that were filed prior to the effective date of the proclamation, are the beneficiaries of currently approved petitions, or are in possession of validly issued H-1B non-immigrant visas."

Big, Beautiful bill passes Committee

President Trump's Big, Beautiful Bill Passes Key Committee

Next stop is the House floor

President Donald Trump’s "big, beautiful bill" may face a House-wide vote as early as Wednesday night, following its approval by a key committee.

The House Rules Committee, which controls most legislation before it reaches the full chamber, convened at 1 a.m. Wednesday to push the expansive bill forward, aligning with Speaker Mike Johnson’s Memorial Day deadline for Senate submission.

The session extended for hours as Democrats accused Republicans of advancing the bill "in the dead of night" and favoring the wealthy at the expense of working-class families. Well, of course Democrats did that with absolutely zero facts.

House Republicans seek to move Trump’s bill through both the House and Senate by the Fourth of July.

Read more about it...

Woke Rules thrown out

Biden Administration Admits Defeat by Withdrawing 7 Woke Rule Changes

The Biden administration withdrew seven far-left proposed rules at the end of December, potentially due to receiving hundreds of thousands of critical public comments.

The withdrawals are being hailed as wins by conservatives, who have submitted comments against the rules, which would have compelled allowing male participation in girls sports, prohibited religious exemptions for birth control coverage, taken federal funding away from pregnancy resource centers, and more.

“On balance, withdrawing these rules is a win for everyone who submitted comments opposing them,” Ethics and Public Policy Center fellow Rachel Morrison told The Daily Signal. “It means these bad policy proposals by the Biden administration will not go into effect.”

Read more about the 7 withdrawn rules