Can Senate Republicans Pass Trump's Agenda?

参议院共和党人能通过特朗普的议程吗?

What A Day

2026-07-28

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Senate Majority Leader John Thune is trying to get a bunch done ahead of the Senate’s long summer break, from sanctions legislation on Russia to funding the government. But none of that seems to matter to President Trump. He’s focused on the SAVE America Act – a sweeping piece of federal legislation that would dramatically change how Americans vote (and most likely, who gets to vote in the first place). Now, a group of far-right Senators – like Utah Sen. Mike Lee – are demanding Thune cancel vacation and put the SAVE America Act on the floor. So who is in charge in the Senate – John Thune, or Donald Trump? To find out, we spoke to Burgess Everett. He’s the congressional bureau chief at Semafor. And in headlines, Trump defended his sweeping tariffs during a speech at a General Motors facility in Michigan; a New York Times report revealed that the Trump Administration canceled major grants for clean-energy projects based entirely on politics; and President Trump finally got to perform his stand-up routine at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner. Show Notes: Check out Burgess' work – semafor.com/author/burgess-everett Call Congress – 202-224-3121 Subscribe to the What A Day Newsletter – https://tinyurl.com/y4y2e9jy What A Day – YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/@whatadaypodcast Follow us on Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/crookedmedia/ For a transcript of this episode, please email transcripts@crooked.com
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  • If you're Trump and you've been able to bend the House of Representatives to your will,

  • and you can't do that with the Senate,

  • that's a frustrating feeling for somebody like him who wants to have an iron grip over his party.

  • I'm Jane Koston, and this is What A Day,

  • a show that is not very surprised to tell you that according to exclusive reporting from The Washington Post,

  • the Drug Enforcement Administration has shown that the Trump administration's military strikes on alleged

  • drug trafficking boats hasn't done anything to curtail the amount of cocaine coming into the United States.

  • As always, drugs are still winning the war on drugs.

  • On today's show, we talk about how President Donald Trump is making

  • the lives of Senate Republicans hell for his own dumb purposes with semaphores Burgess Everett.

  • Before we get into the GOP's cruel summer, here's what we're following today, Monday, July 27th.

  • We're going to Michigan.

  • The car companies are doing better than they've ever done.

  • Many, many plants are being built all over the United States.

  • They'll be opening them over the next year.

  • Toyota just...

  • Agreed to come in, move its entire operation out of Mexico and into the United States.

  • It'll be opening, I guess, the largest plant in the world, somebody said, but all because of tariffs and because of me.

  • All because of Trump.

  • See the war over there?