The SAVE Act bypasses Senator John Thune completely

At 2:43 PM on a Wednesday, Senator Mike Lee (Utah) walked onto the Senate floor and handed Vice President J.D. Vance a six-page procedural document that changed everything. Vance read it, conferred with the Parliamentarian for 22 minutes, and issued a ruling that bypassed Senator John Thune's (S.D.) scheduling authority entirely - using a constitutional power most senators didn't know the Vice President had. The Save America Act now has a motion pending on the Senate floor that Thune did not authorize and cannot simply ignore. For the first time in 18 months of failures, the bill moved without the Majority Leader's permission. Here is exactly how Lee built this moment, what Vance ruled, and what Thune must decide by Thursday morning. John Langston reports.