Senators head for the exits without meeting Trump’s demands for voting bill
Senators advanced other Trump priorities but failed to clear the voting bill, then agreed to try again in a September budget package.
- Senate Republicans departed for summer recess, ending a standoff over President Donald Trump's demand to abolish the legislative filibuster and pass the SAVE America Act, a strict proof-of-citizenship voting bill.
- For weeks, Trump pressured Senate Majority Leader John Thune to abandon the 60-vote threshold, but the SAVE America Act lacked sufficient support among the slim Republican majority, who resisted changing the chamber's rules.
- Following a late-night call with the president, Sen. Ron Johnson, Sen. Mike Lee, and Sen. Rick Scott announced an alternative plan: attaching voting bill elements to a broader budget package for the Pentagon when the Senate returns in September.
- During the 20-hour session, Thune confirmed Attorney General Todd Blanche, passed Russian sanctions, and approved a government funding package, despite managing a slim majority with Sen. Mitch McConnell absent.
- The standoff illustrates Trump's ongoing struggle to master the Senate, where established rules and slim margins continue to constrain his legislative agenda despite his de facto speaker ambitions.
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Inside the Senate’s chaotic all-nighter that left Trump’s SAVE America Act on the shelf
During the long night to send the Senate home, deals were brokered, major legislation was punted and promises were extended. The SAVE America Act never made it off the shelf, despite promises up and down from its biggest proponents to thwart any attempt to leave Washington, D.C., without trying to pass it. And the vehicle to blast through Democratic objections and pass parts of the bill never left the garage, either. But it all nearly fell apart…
Minnesota election experts: SAVE America Act would disrupt voting to fix ‘a problem that doesn’t exist’
The set of voter registration reforms known as the SAVE America Act that has become a top political priority of President Donald Trump would impose massive burdens on the people and systems that ensure Minnesota elections operate securely and smoothly – and for unclear benefits – state election officials and experts say. “We’d be going back in time to where people had to go to a government office and show particular documents” to prove their ide…
GOP senators fear Trump-induced headache over voter suppression bill
Republican senators are gearing up to get hammered by President Donald Trump all the way up to the midterms over their inability to pass his favored and highly controversial SAVE America Act. Trump has made the act such a priority that he intentionally refused to sign a bipartisan housing bill aimed at making homes more affordable in an effort to pressure the Senate to pass it. The SAVE America Act would require Americans to provide proof of cit…
August recess was saved. The GOP’s voter ID bill, not so much
President Donald Trump and his closest allies on Capitol Hill said they’re willing to do whatever it takes to pass the so-called SAVE America Act before the midterms — except follow through on threats to cancel August recess. A group of ultraconservative House Republicans and even a few GOP senators lobbied for the chamber to […]
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SAVE America Act supporters irate over bill stalling in U.S. Senate
(The Center Square) – With Congress in recess until September, SAVE America Act hardliners are chastising Senate Republican leadership for refusing to consider the contentious voter registration reform legislation.
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