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\n House Speaker Mike Johnson sometimes can\u2019t get President Trump off the phone. The calls can come in the middle of the day \u2014 or the dead of night \u2014 or even after hourslong meetings at the White House, the Louisiana Republican often tells associates.\n <\/p>

Read more Acting director of national intelligence says leadership transition will begin Monday after Trump talks<\/a><\/p>\n

\n But across the Capitol, the same can\u2019t be said for the other top GOP leader: Senate Majority Leader John Thune.\n <\/p>\n

\n It can be days, if not weeks, that Thune doesn\u2019t hear from the president. Thune instead mostly learns about Trump\u2019s latest grenade roiling the GOP agenda or the broadsides directed at the Senate majority leader himself from Truth Social and the media.\n <\/p>\n

\n During the latest high-stakes stretch in the Senate, with Trump\u2019s own Cabinet nominee in trouble, the president\u2019s election-year agenda teetering and a huge Iran funding bill in doubt, Thune told CNN he hadn\u2019t spoken to the president in nearly two weeks. The split between the two has only widened since Trump moved to take out fellow Republican, Sen. John Cornyn, in his primary in May, and as the president has loudly insisted that the Senate nuke the filibuster \u2014 a demand the GOP leader has repeatedly rejected.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cWith me, it\u2019s more on an as-needed basis,\u201d Thune told CNN when asked about his conversations with the president as of late.\n <\/p>\n

\n Now, the increasingly apparent dissonance between the two men is fueling anxiety for many of Thune\u2019s fellow Republicans in Congress, who are defending fragile majorities that are both in play this November.\n <\/p>\n

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\n While the two have never been personally close, with the mild-mannered Thune far different in style than the mercurial and combative president, they were in much more frequent communication at the start of Trump\u2019s second term, according to senators and people who know both. Trump would frequently praise Thune\u2019s leadership as the Senate GOP leader ushered through his agenda and often bit his tongue when he disagreed with the president, whether it was about an incendiary social media post or a policy like sweeping tariffs that hurt his constituents in South Dakota.\n <\/p>\n

\n Yet in their private talks, Thune uses a very direct approach with Trump, bluntly explaining what can and cannot be accomplished in the Senate, GOP sources say, far different than other Republicans who tend to follow the president\u2019s orders, no matter how implausible.\n <\/p>\n

\n Tensions have grown in recent weeks, as Trump has publicly taken shots at Thune\u2019s stewardship of the chamber. Trump riled up MAGA Republicans to direct their ire at the GOP leader to pass the president\u2019s \u201cSAVE America Act\u201d \u2014 even though the Senate has already rejected the voting restrictions bill.\n <\/p>\n

\n And Trump has consistently blindsided Thune, whether it was pulling the plug on a signing ceremony for a housing bill that Republicans were eager to champion in an election year dominated by affordability concerns or blowing up efforts to renew key surveillance powers. Trump temporarily sidelined his own nominee for director of national intelligence and even threw a wrench into plans for the Senate to quickly approve tens of billions for immigration enforcement by announcing a $1.8 billion \u201canti-weaponization\u201d fund, an issue that still complicates the GOP agenda.\n <\/p>\n

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\n The result has been a circular firing squad that has persisted for months, with roughly a dozen MAGA-aligned Republicans siding squarely with Trump, most other Senate Republicans in Thune\u2019s corner, and many perplexed that the infighting is making a difficult midterm election environment even more challenging.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI would say we\u2019re all longing for a relationship with the White House where we work more in harmony,\u201d said Sen. John Curtis, a Utah Republican.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThe infighting is not really productive,\u201d said GOP Sen. Jim Justice of West Virginia, making clear that he supports the president\u2019s agenda, but acknowledging the limits of a narrowly divided Senate. \u201cThere\u2019s no point in going round and round and round.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n And if the leaders can\u2019t get on the same page, Justice warned: \u201cIf you don\u2019t watch out, you\u2019re gonna make things much, much, much worse because we\u2019re gonna lose seats and that will make it worse for the president.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n The gulf is only set to widen with the death of Sen. Lindsey Graham, an ally and confidant of both men, according to GOP senators. Graham, a golf partner of Trump\u2019s and a very close friend of Thune\u2019s, was a \u201clinchpin\u201d between the two, one of the senators said.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cWe need to be talking up the wins, talking about how crazy Democrats are, and instead we are knifing each other,\u201d the senator said.\n <\/p>\n

\n Trump-Thune spat comes to a head\n<\/h2>\n

\n The relationship between the two men is poised to hit an inflection point as the Senate stares down a five-week recess beginning at this week\u2019s end. Trump has demanded that his \u201cSAVE America Act\u201d pass before senators leave. But even setting up a certain-to-be-doomed vote would eat up precious floor time as the chamber scrambles to finish other big-ticket items, such as Graham\u2019s Russia sanctions bill and a stopgap funding measure to keep the government open until December.\n <\/p>\n

\n Complicating matters the most: Trump\u2019s demand to move his agenda through the unwieldy budget process, a move that would allow him to advance a larger package of billions for the Iran war and election restrictions along straight party lines. Yet there remains sharp disagreement among Senate Republicans on what the proposal should look like, meaning it also lacks 50 votes to pass the Senate, according to Thune.\n <\/p>\n

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\n Thune\u2019s chief priority this week is keeping the government open past September 30. But Trump and his inner circle are far more intent to pass the rest of his agenda using that budget maneuver \u2013 despite the objections of many in their own party.\n <\/p>

Read more Trump predicted an oil catastrophe if the war didn\u2019t end. The clock is ticking<\/a><\/p>\n

\n Senior White House officials, including White House chief of staff Susie Wiles and budget director Russ Vought, have been pressing senators to advance a budget resolution this week. Butin a closed-door lunch with Vought last week, several GOP senators pushed back at the White House\u2019s demands, according to sources in the room.\n <\/p>\n

\n Many Republicans side with Thune, especially since the cumbersome process would require a marathon series of votes \u2013 known on Capitol Hill as a \u201cvote-a-rama\u201d \u2013 on politically charged issues that vulnerable senators are eager to avoid.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI don\u2019t believe that it is realistically possible to do it,\u201d said Sen. Lisa Murkowski, the Alaska Republican, when asked about voting on the budget resolution. \u201cI\u2019m not sure that a late-night vote-a-rama with a lot of political hot buttons is what a lot of members who are up this year are really looking forward to. So, I question the political wisdom as well.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Trump\u2019s frustration with Thune and his GOP leadership team are shared by the MAGA wing in Congress, which is planning to force a vote this week that would prevent the Senate from adjourning for the summer. Roughly a dozen Republicans support it, according to one person briefed on the discussions.\n <\/p>\n

\n Trump-aligned senators, like Senate Budget Committee Chairman Ron Johnson, warn Thune that it would be an \u201cenormous mistake\u201d to adjourn without acting on Trump\u2019s demand to move his agenda through the budget process.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cOur supporters wouldn\u2019t take kindly to it,\u201d Johnson told CNN.\n <\/p>\n

\n But most senators recognize that canceling the August recess wouldn\u2019t get more of Trump\u2019s agenda done, since Republicans don\u2019t have the votes to accomplish what the president wants.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u2018He doesn\u2019t vote in our elections\u2019\n<\/h2>\n

\n Many of Thune\u2019s allies believe Trump is setting him up to be the fall guy if Democrats rout in the midterms and flip the Senate.\n <\/p>\n

\n Asked by CNN on Thursday whether he thinks Trump is trying to make him a scapegoat, Thune simply shrugged his shoulders: \u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n But it was just a day earlier when Trump pointedly refused to give Thune a vote of confidence when asked whether he\u2019s still the man for the job.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cWell, we\u2019re going to find out and I\u2019ll let you know,\u201d the president said.\n <\/p>\n

\n Thune responded with his own retort: \u201cHe doesn\u2019t vote in our elections.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n The White House declined to comment on Trump\u2019s relationship with Thune, instead referring back to the president\u2019s prior critical comments about the Senate GOP leader.\n <\/p>\n

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\n GOP senators say there\u2019s another big reason for the fallout. Thune is forced to express the views of many in his conference who disagree with the president but are afraid to speak out over fears of reprisal. Those issues include Trump\u2019s demands to eliminate Senate traditions and rules that give power to the minority party, such as the filibuster and the so-called blue slips to grant it a say on certain lower court nominees and US attorney picks.\n <\/p>\n

\n Thune, backed by many Senate Republicans, has told the president they won\u2019t do it \u2014 particularly over the filibuster, a tool they say they\u2019ll need one day in the Senate minority to block Democratic bills.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cIt\u2019s just a fact, we\u2019re not going to nuke the filibuster,\u201d Thune said of the stall tactic that requires 60 votes to overcome.\n <\/p>\n

\n And Trump\u2019s decision to go after two Senate Republicans exacerbated tensions, especially since Cornyn\u2019s Texas seat now is at risk of flipping with Trump\u2019s controversial pick of Ken Paxton as the nominee.\n <\/p>\n

\n Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma chalked up Trump\u2019s frustrations to his fast-paced nature as a long-time business executive.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cHe\u2019s not content with anything. \u2018I can make a better golf club, I can make a better hotel,\u2019\u201d Lankford said. \u201cHe\u2019s always pushing.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n But asked if it\u2019s productive for the two party leaders to be in disagreement, Lankford said: \u201cThune and the president can work out the differences on that. The hard part is, the president wants to be able to move fast like an executive can move. But we\u2019re a legislative branch, we don\u2019t move that fast.\u201d\n <\/p>

Read more Trump\u2019s reflecting pool debacle takes a predictably scandalous turn<\/a><\/p>\n

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