Trump Halts $150 Billion Senate Budget Plan, Delaying SAVE America Act

3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Aug 8

$150 billion in planned Senate budget votes were shelved after Trump intervened, forcing Republicans to postpone their latest bid to advance the SAVE America Act until September.
Trump and GOP senators feared the blueprint would fail, and Ron Johnson said they will spend August rewriting it into a stronger reconciliation bill that could bypass a Democratic filibuster.
$350 billion in added defense spending is now a central demand in the reworked package as the Iran war drains munitions, though SAVE provisions still face scrutiny from the Senate parliamentarian.
Early Saturday, Republicans still cleared a stopgap funding bill through early December, moved a Russia sanctions package and confirmed Todd Blanche, but left voter-ID, crypto and college-sports measures unfinished.
The delay tightens an already narrow calendar: the Senate returns in late September, then is expected to leave for most of October ahead of the November midterms.