Trumpâs Beef, Filibusters & Blue Slips: Senate Drama 101
On October 29, 2025, Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana played referee in the Senate's latest episode of "Make Trump Chill." Over a closed-door lunch, Kennedy felt compelled to tell Vice President Vance to get President Trump to quit begging the Senate to murder the filibuster and banish the sacred 'blue slip' traditionâAKA the Senate's version of a get-out-of-jail-free card for blocking judges. Vance hedged bets, admitting there isn't the political juice to flip the script but grumbled about Capitol Hill's dysfunction like an angry dad at a teenage slumber party. Meanwhile, Vance warned senators not to pull 'rifle-shot' votes on funding bills, including SNAP food aidâwhich is Senate-speak for 'please donât mess this up.' Democrats got the blame for looming government shutdown chaos, the GOP claimed momentum like toddlers with a sugar high, and also admitted they really donât want the House to come back. To top this grand political salad, senators kept circling back to Trump's bizarre plan to import Argentinian beefâas if the Senate floor is a culinary reality show and not a governing body.
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Imagine begging a kingmaker to stop breaking the Senateâs toy, all while whining about dysfunction and plotting beef imports like a gourmet chef lost in filibuster hell. Congress 2025: less government, more steak drama.
Vice President Vance basically told Trump ânahâ on ditching blue slips but silently judged the Senate like itâs a soap opera without commercial breaks. Meanwhile, beef from Argentina got more Senate airtime than actual bills.
When your government shutdown theater includes a side show about imported beef and political couch-potato tactics, you know democracy is hanging by a blue slip.
Source: Axios | Published: 10/28/2025 | Author: Stef W. Kight
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