Buck Brief - Exclusive Reporting: GOP Senators Betray Trump on SAVE America Act
The Buck Sexton Show
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4.7 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Are Senate Republicans blocking the SAVE Act because they oppose President Trump? Ashley Brasfield of The Daily Caller joins Buck to break down her reporting on growing tensions inside the GOP and what it could mean for the legislation's future.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.6 | Are there Republicans in the Senate who don't want the Save America Act because they don't like Trump? |
| 0:11.4 | Is it really that straightforward? |
| 0:13.3 | That devious, if you will. |
| 0:14.9 | Ashley Brassfield joins us now. |
| 0:16.9 | She is a reporter at the Daily Caller. |
| 0:18.4 | She has a exclusive. |
| 0:20.1 | A scoop on this one. |
| 0:22.2 | John Thune admits some Senate Republicans hate Trump too much to support the Save America Act. |
| 0:30.0 | Ashley, what is going on here? |
| 0:32.0 | I know. You're having to hold your breath because you can't believe they said the quiet part out loud in this. |
| 0:37.2 | But what happened yesterday was a GOP lunch. |
| 0:40.2 | So they're having lunch on a Wednesday. |
| 0:41.8 | It's all the senators. |
| 0:43.2 | And basically a brawl kind of or a fight, whichever you want to call it, cat fight breaks out, |
| 0:47.9 | basically against the Save America Act in this lunch. |
| 0:51.0 | And one of the things that was allegedly said by John Thune was that Republicans will |
| 0:55.7 | never vote for this because they cannot stand President Donald Trump and they never will. |
| 1:00.0 | And we've seen seeing for the last year a fight go on with the same bill. |
| 1:04.0 | I feel like we've been talking about it forever. |
| 1:06.0 | And one of the aspects of this was that a lot of these GOP senators, some that were named in an |
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