John Thune Stabs Trump in the Back — Confirms Betrayal in Huge Announcement

"When it comes time to choose between power and principle, the D.C. class always chooses power — and always betrays the Republican base."

John Thune just told the Republican base exactly where he stands — and it’s not with the America First movement.

After a Democrat-appointed Senate parliamentarian gutted some of the most hard-fought provisions in the Big Beautiful Bill — including defunding Medicaid for illegal aliens and sanctuary cities — Thune officially declined to overrule her. He refused to fire her. And in doing so, he handed unelected bureaucrats final say over a bill that was supposed to deliver on the MAGA agenda.

This isn’t a small procedural scuffle. This is a total surrender of power. The parliamentarian — Elizabeth MacDonough, appointed by Harry Reid back in 2012 — just slashed the heart out of a bill Republicans spent months building.

Gone are the provisions defunding “gender-affirming care” under Medicaid and CHIP. Gone are the cuts to sanctuary city funding. Gone are the penalties for states giving taxpayer-funded healthcare to illegal immigrants.

And John Thune’s response?

“That would not be a good outcome for getting a bill done.”

Not a good outcome? The outcome is already here: a Democrat loyalist just rewrote the bill — and you’re standing by watching it happen.

Thune’s refusal to act is more than political cowardice. It’s complicity. The parliamentarian is not elected. She holds no mandate. Yet here she is, tossing out entire planks of the platform voters chose — and she’s doing it because John Thune and his Senate colleagues are too spineless to stop her.

Senator Roger Marshall has it right. He’s calling for her to be fired and for the Senate to finally impose term limits on the position. Because no single unelected staffer should be allowed to override a national mandate.

This isn’t ancient Rome. We don’t take orders from lifetime technocrats appointed by long-dead Senate majorities.

The truth is this: Democrats knew exactly what they were doing when they put MacDonough in place. She’s the firewall. She’s the insurance policy. When they lose elections, she makes sure they don’t lose power. And now John Thune is keeping her in the chair.

There is no rule — no statute, no amendment — that says the Senate must bow to the parliamentarian. The presiding officer, with backing from the majority, can overrule her recommendations. It has happened before. But it won’t happen now, because people like Thune would rather keep the peace in Washington than fight for the voters who sent them there.

This is how the game is rigged. Not with stolen ballots, but with quiet sabotage from within. You win the election, you write the bill, you line up the votes — and then a 2012 staff appointee says no. And John Thune shrugs.

If you’re wondering why the Republican base is fed up, why they don’t trust D.C., why the support for Trump only grows, this is it.

When it comes time to choose between power and principle, the D.C. class always chooses power — and always betrays the Republican base.