Thune pours cold water on Trump plea to scrap blue slips

Published December 11, 2025 12:06pm ET



Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) rebuffed a Thursday plea from President Donald Trump to eliminate blue slips, cautioning that the practice is widely supported by Republicans in the Senate.

“Senators have always had input to that process, and there are many Republican senators, way more Republican senators, who are interested in preserving that than those who aren’t,” Thune told the Washington Examiner.

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