Just when you think the feckless, Republican-led U.S. Senate can’t get any worse, they go and top themselves.
With Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) drawing heat from the right for his inability to pass the SAVE America Act to ensure election integrity ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, the upper chamber reportedly greenlighted billions of dollars to be spent on transgender experimentation on children this week after the Senate GOP adopted a budget resolution that includes a budget reconciliation package to fund immigration enforcement and reopen the Department of Homeland Security.
The resolution passed by a vote of 50-48 in the “dead of the night,” and Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) took to social media to sound the alarm:
“In the dead of night, the Senate voted to allow billions in taxpayer money to go to trans treatments – hormones, puberty blockers – for MINORS. Unconscionable,” Hawley said in a post shared on X:
In the dead of night, the Senate voted to allow billions in taxpayer money to go to trans treatments – hormones, puberty blockers – for MINORS. Unconscionable. Is the House now going to do the same? pic.twitter.com/p2KHa685t8
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) April 23, 2026
Hawley called on House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) — the Republican-led House will have to pass the legislation — to “stop this abomination once and for all.”
“The Senate just greenlit billions of taxpayer dollars to fund transgender experimentation on our kids. The House must act to stop this abomination once and for all,” he posted.
The Senate just greenlit billions of taxpayer dollars to fund transgender experimentation on our kids.
The House must act to stop this abomination once and for all pic.twitter.com/igAYN8hLO9
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) April 23, 2026
“If the House fails to act immediately as part of reconciliation, billions of Federal dollars will go to Planned Parenthood and other medical ‘providers’ for hormones, puberty blockers, and irreversible treatments for minor children,” Hawley said in a letter to Johnson.
As for the SAVE America Act, Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) tried to add core elements of the bill to a budget reconciliation package that could pass with a simple-majority vote, but four “Republicans” blocked the move. The usual suspects, Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), and Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), voted against Kennedy’s efforts.
“Unfortunately, Republican leadership in Washington still doesn’t seem to understand — or simply does not care — how much the party base has grown to loathe them.”
Here’s a sampling of responses to the story, as seen on X:
WTF!! Time to REMOVE John Thune! We need new leadership ASAP.
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) April 24, 2026
…sorry what?
Why would the Senate, which is controlled by the GOP, send BILLIONS of taxpayer dollars to trans treatments?
I thought the GOP wasn’t going to do this stuff?
What the hell is the GOP actually doing for the American people right now?
Explain it to me.
— Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) April 23, 2026
The WORST senate of my lifetime! The only time
you *cockroaches* work is in the middle of the night while *taxpayers* are sleeping. Shove john thune and your midterms where the sun doesnt shine. Thank you for your attention to this matter— Venetta Carroll (@Carrol10Venetta) April 23, 2026
Mutilating minors but no SAVE ACT?! This is tyranny of the unaccountable swamp. PASS THE SAVE ACT
— Elizabeth (@notlizelizabeth) April 23, 2026
Senator, I really want to know why Americans are still forced to pay taxes. It appears we have no actual voice in DC.
“No Taxation without Representation!” Isn’t that what started the American Revolution?
— Patriotic Kitty 🇺🇸 (@Kittaene) April 23, 2026
So the senate can mutilate kids but not pass the Save America Act. Got it. Good job. pic.twitter.com/K4VZhSyWd7
— Don Smith (@smitty1038312) April 24, 2026
Any Republican that votes for funding or normalization of transgender mutilation of children MUST be ejected and banned from the @GOP or I am done with republicans.
If GOP cannot draw a line in the sand on something so clearly evil, they are evil.
Sick of this shit.
— Sean (@SeanALarabee) April 24, 2026
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Tom Tillison grew up in Maryland before moving to Central Florida as a young teen. It is in the Sunshine State that he honed both his passion for politics and his writing skills. Tillison also contributes to BizPac Review.
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