President Donald Trump has publicly questioned whether Senate Majority Leader John Thune is the right person to lead Senate Republicans after the SAVE America Act repeatedly stalled. The dispute matters because the bill is presented as one of Trump’s central legislative priorities, and its failure could expose tensions between the White House and the Senate Republican leadership.

Trump has pressed Republican senators for months to pass the measure, describing it as a missing achievement of his agenda. In Oval Office remarks, he stopped short of fully endorsing Thune’s leadership, saying, “We’re going to find out” whether Thune is the man to lead the party in the Senate.