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John Thune Isn’t Bowing to Trump’s Pressure: ‘Show Me How This Ends’

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) speaks following a policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on July 21, 2026. —Finn Gomez—Getty ImagesThere’s an inherent tension between any President and the Senate Majority Leader. George W. Bush and his team did everything they could in 2004 to make Tom Daschle the first party leader in the Senate to lose re-election since 1952. Barack Obama, who hired Daschle’s top aide as his own when he won a seat in the the Senate that same year, had a respectful but strained relationship with Harry Reid, who praised him as a "light-skinned Afric...