Rep. Troy Nehls, R-TX, explodes and goes nuclear on Leader John Thune, R-SD, and grades his leadership during the 119th Congress an “F.”
Marching down the Capitol steps, Nehls reminds us that Republicans had the House, Senate, and Presidency, doing very little with the power they had.
“What did they do with it? They squander the time away. Now here we are. We got lame duck. We got what five weeks? And now they say we gotta get something done,” Nehls told TGP.
“What the hell have we been doing the past 20 months?”
Senate Republicans couldn’t even pass key legislation like the SAVE America Act during their time in power.
Nehls then redirected his frustrations to Thune himself.
“So I blame John Thune. You get an F. An F. Mike Johnson gets an A minus. John Thune, you get an F. The American people gave us a unified government, and they wanted us to get something done. Donald Trump’s agenda, and we failed to do it,” Nehls told TGP.
“The American people, they gave it to us. We’ve earned what happened. We earned it.”
Some reporters then approached Nehls and started to bring up President Trump, promoting Nehls to walk away irritated as he snaps back at the reporters:
“It’s not Donald Trump. I don’t wanna hear anything about blaming Donald Trump for this!”
WATCH: @RepTroyNehls goes nuclear on @johnthune
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— Myles Morell (@MylesMorell) November 13, 2026
Speaker Mike Johnson passed numerous bills for Trump’s agenda through the House, including the Save America Act.
Johnson also had a slimmer majority in the House than Thune had in the Senate. So why was Thune unsuccessful in passing President Trump’s agenda?
Nehl’s frustration mirrors that of many Republicans following the disastrous midterm losses and the role Thune played in them.
The anger and frustration many Republicans are feeling towards Thune could put him at risk of being primaried in the 2028 South Dakota Senate race.
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