President Donald Trump is pressing Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., to keep the Senate in session through August recess to process presidential appointments, ostensibly making Democrats’ pay for their continued “delay and obstruction” of the president’s agenda.

There are 135 presidential appointments sitting stuck in Democrat-forced gridlock in the Senate, and Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, has picked up the Trump torch in pressing Thune to cancel senators’ vacation, saying the “delay and obstruction” allows former President Joe Biden’s “deep state running our federal agencies in Washington” outside of the president’s bidding.

“Very important,” Trump wrote Saturday on Truth Social, sharing a screenshot of Lee’s X post, “Republicans must play to win. Clear the 135. So badly needed!”

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