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华盛顿讯 — 参议院共和党人原本准备在本周完成一项复杂操作，以确认特朗普总统最新提名的国家情报总监人选，此举本可解决因无证搜查程序过期陷入的僵局。
随后，总统本人打乱了这一计划。他在欧洲期间于清晨发布的Truth Social帖子中表示，在参议院批准接替他现任曼哈顿联邦最高检察官职位的人选之前，杰伊·克莱顿的提名确认程序不应推进。他还就《外国情报监控法》第702条的重新授权提出额外要求，该条款赋予情报机构监视海外目标的广泛权力。在明确克莱顿无法出席听证会后，参议员们取消了对他的提名确认听证会。
总统为何要这么做？
“这是个好问题，”参议院多数党领袖约翰·图恩周三对记者表示。
此次风波是行政部门与参议院共和党人之间最新的一次分歧。宾夕法尼亚大道另一端的一系列不合时宜的声明，迫使图恩和他的党团会议浪费了精心制定的计划，暴露出该党在中期选举前日益扩大的内部分歧。
关于克莱顿提名的争议源于总统的另一项决定：他于本月早些时候宣布比尔·普尔特担任代理国家情报总监。这一举措直接破坏了一项即将达成的重新授权第702条的协议，民主党人表示，如果普尔特接任，他们将不会支持该条款的重新授权。
上个月，司法部宣布设立“反武器化”基金，这打乱了参议院共和党人批准长期寻求的移民执法机构资金的计划，迫使他们推迟投票。同一拨款法案此前几天也不得不进行修改，移除了与特朗普总统大型白宫舞厅项目相关的安保资金。
总统公开罢免两名共和党议员的举动进一步加剧了共和党参议员的不满情绪。他支持路易斯安那州参议员比尔·卡西迪和德克萨斯州参议员约翰·康恩的初选对手，导致两人在初选中惨败。此后几周，两人都更愿意批评本届政府。
“很难将这里发生的任何事情与我们周围的政治氛围割裂开来，”图恩上个月对记者表示。
本周，参议院共和党人还纷纷要求提供有关周日宣布的美伊协议的更多细节。共和党领导人要求举行简报会，但似乎基本被蒙在鼓里。
沟通失当再次让多数党领袖陷入困境，人们不禁质疑，总统为何似乎故意要让他的日子更难过。
“我很了解总统，我认为他真的很喜欢图恩参议员，”路易斯安那州共和党参议员约翰·肯尼迪周三对记者表示。“我的意思是，谁不喜欢约翰·图恩呢？如果你不喜欢约翰·图恩，那你就不喜欢金毛寻回犬。”
肯尼迪认为，总统的行事风格只有两种：“漠不关心和光速行动”。
“在对他重要的事情上，他行动起来快如闪电，”肯尼迪说。
总统与参议院共和党领导层在一个特定问题上多次发生分歧——一项名为《拯救美国法案》的选举法案，该法案将对选民登记和投票施加严格的新规定。图恩多次解释称，该法案遭到民主党人和少数共和党人反对，在参议院没有通过的票数。但总统鼓励图恩想办法推动法案通过，包括必要时修改参议院规则。
“他想要《拯救美国法案》，也想要比尔·普尔特，这很明显，”肯尼迪在谈到总统时说。“但这不是国会的运作方式。我的意思是，我生日想要一辆保时捷，但我得不到。”
这项选举立法是特朗普总统周三破坏参议院推进克莱顿提名计划时提出的要求之一。“为了增加一点悬念，但为了国家和我国人民的利益，在《拯救美国法案》获得通过之前，我不会批准《外国情报监控法》的重新授权，”总统写道。
在这场最后时刻的干预之前，克莱顿预计最早将于周四顺利获得确认，这原本会是参议院共和党人的重大胜利，他们一直在快速推进对他的提名。此举本可避免普尔特接管情报界，为民主党人支持重新授权第702条扫清道路。
白宫没有立即回应置评请求。
随着总统的最新转变以及参议院内部的现实情况，参议院共和党人不清楚该如何推进。周三下午被问及下一步行动时，图恩表示：“我目前还不确定答案。”他告诉记者，他已经几天没有和总统交谈了。
“这是他的提名人选，显然他目前决定不推进提名，”图恩说。“我们将看看接下来会发生什么。”
但对于一位一反常态保持沉默、议程再次受总统摆布的多数党领袖来说，“走一步看一步”是他最一贯的表态。
Trump upends Senate GOP’s plans once again with demands over nominations
June 18, 2026 / 9:46 AM EDT / CBS News
Washington — Senate Republicans were poised to pull off a complex maneuver this week to confirm President Trump’s newest pick for director of national intelligence, a move that would have resolved an impasse over a lapsed warrantless surveillance program.
Then, the president himself threw a wrench in the plans. In an early morning Truth Social post from Europe, he said Jay Clayton’s confirmation should not move forward until the Senate approves a replacement for his current role as the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan. He also made additional demands for the reauthorization of Section 702 of FISA, which grants intelligence agencies broad authority to spy on overseas targets. Senators canceled Clayton’s confirmation hearing once it became clear he wouldn’t appear.
Why did the president do it?
“Good question,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune told reporters Wednesday.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune walks from the Senate floor to his office on Wednesday, June 17, 2026. Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images
The breakdown represents the latest misalignment between the executive branch and Senate Republicans. A number of poorly timed announcements from the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue have forced Thune and his conference to squander carefully laid plans, exposing a widening rift within the party heading into the midterm elections.
The dispute over Clayton’s nomination has its origins in another decision by the president: his announcement of Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence earlier this month. That move single-handedly foiled an emerging deal to reauthorize Section 702, with Democrats saying they would not support doing so if Pulte was set to take over.
And last month, the Justice Department’s announcement of an “anti-weaponization” fund blew up Senate GOP plans to approve long-sought funding for immigration enforcement agencies, forcing them to delay votes. That same funding package had to be reworked days earlier to remove funds for security tied to Mr. Trump’s massive White House ballroom project.
GOP senators’ frustrations have been exacerbated by the president effectively ousting two of their own. He endorsed the primary opponents of Sens. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana and John Cornyn of Texas, leading to stinging primary defeats. Both have been more willing to criticize the administration in the weeks since.
“It’s hard to divorce anything that happens here from what’s happening in the political atmosphere around us,” Thune told reporters last month.
Senate Republicans have also been clamoring for more details this week on the U.S.-Iran agreement that was announced Sunday. GOP leaders called for a briefing, but appeared to be left largely in the dark.
The miscommunications have once again put the majority leader in a difficult position, raising questions about why the president seems intent on making his life more difficult.
“I know the president pretty well, and I think he really likes Sen. Thune,” GOP Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana told reporters Wednesday. “I mean, who doesn’t like John Thune? If you don’t like John Thune, you don’t like golden retrievers.”
Sen. John Kennedy speaks with reporters at the Capitol on March 26, 2026. J. Scott Applewhite / AP
Kennedy argued that the president simply has “two speeds: uninterested and the speed of light.”
“And on the things that are important to him, he moves at the speed of light,” Kennedy said.
The president has repeatedly been at odds with Senate GOP leadership over one issue in particular — an elections bill known as the SAVE America Act, which would impose strict new rules for registering to vote and casting ballots. Thune has repeatedly explained that the bill, which Democrats and a handful of Republicans oppose, does not have the votes to pass in the Senate. But the president has encouraged Thune to find a way to get it done, including by changing the Senate’s rules if needed.
“He wants the SAVE Act and he wants Bill Pulte, that’s clear,” Kennedy said of the president. “But that’s not the way this place works. I mean, I want a Porsche for my birthday. I’m not going to get it.”
The election legislation was part of Mr. Trump’s demands on Wednesday, when he torpedoed the Senate’s plans to move ahead with Clayton’s confirmation. “[T]o add a slight bit of intrigue but, for the Good of the Nation, and the People of our Country, I will not approve FISA without THE SAVE AMERICA ACT going along with it,” the president wrote.
Before the 11th-hour intervention, Clayton was expected to sail to confirmation as soon as Thursday, in what would have been a significant victory for Senate Republicans, who moved at a rapid clip to fast-track his nomination. Doing so would have precluded the need for Pulte to take the reins of the intelligence community, clearing the way for Democrats to support reauthorizing Section 702.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
With the president’s latest turn, and the realities of the dynamics in the upper chamber, Senate Republicans were left unclear about how to proceed. Asked Wednesday afternoon about the path forward, Thune said, “I’m not sure I know the answer to that just yet.” He told reporters that he hadn’t spoken to the president in a few days.
“This is his nominee, and so obviously he made a decision not to move forward at the moment,” Thune said. “And we’ll see what comes next.”
But for a majority leader who was uncharacteristically tight-lipped, with an agenda once again at the whims of the president, “one day at a time” was his most consistent refrain.
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