Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) rebuffed a Thursday plea from President Donald Trump to eliminate blue slips , cautioning that the practice is widely supported by Republicans in the Senate.

“Senators have always had input to that process, and there are many Republican senators, way more Republican senators, who are interested in preserving that than those who aren’t,” Thune told the Washington Examiner .

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“So, I think the question is, even if we did it, are there the votes there to do it, and there aren’t.”

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