The rejection of Trump’s demand that the Senate pass a budget framework before leaving for a five-week recess will further fuel escalating tensions between the White House and Senate Republicans. “Right now, we don’t have 50,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) warned after Trump renewed his pressure on the Senate to act on the House-passed budget resolution. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) and then resubmitting Blanche’s name after Cornyn and Tillis leave Congress. Trump suggested that he could leave Blanche as acting attorney general for the next five months and then resubmit his nomination after Cornyn and Tillis leave in early January.