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- Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) rejected U.S. President Donald Trump's request to end the blue slip tradition.
- Thune said many Republicans back keeping the practice because it benefits them when a Democrat sits in the White House.
- Trump criticized the blue slip on Truth Social while urging Thune to act.
- Trump claimed only far-left Democrats are being approved, and Senate Republicans remain hesitant to change the tradition.
