Thune: ‘The Votes Currently Aren’t There’ to Get Rid of Filibuster, Pass Save America Act
Thune said Republicans lack the votes to scrap the filibuster as Trump presses the bill and links it to a FISA extension.
- On Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader John Thune said his conference lacks the votes to bypass the 60-vote filibuster threshold to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act.
- President Trump has prioritized the SAVE America Act, which requires proof of citizenship for federal election registration, repeatedly calling on GOP senators to scrap the 60-vote filibuster rule.
- Thune told host Bret Baier on Fox News's "Special Report" that Republicans are "bound by arithmetic," acknowledging the president is "passionate" while adding "the votes currently aren't there."
- On Wednesday, President Trump paused Jay Clayton's DNI confirmation, stating on Truth Social, "I will not approve FISA without THE SAVE AMERICA ACT going along with it."
- With Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act powers having lapsed last week, Thune argued attaching the SAVE America Act to the surveillance measure would "tank" it, despite Democrats' openness to extending FISA powers.
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Vance pushes Senate to force SAVE America Act showdown over FISA
Vice President JD Vance joined President Donald Trump in urging Republicans to link the SAVE America Act to renewal of a key spy program that has stalled in the Senate. “Why don’t we try and at least force people to vote against it?” Vance said at a Thursday press briefing at the White House. Trump has repeatedly threatened to veto a deal to extend Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act unless the election bill is attached, but…
‘They Want Non-Citizens to Vote SO THEY CAN CHEAT’: Hawley Torches Dems Over SAVE America Act * The Gateway Pundit * by Alicia Powe
Sen. Josh Hawley just cut through the noise and said what millions of Americans have suspected for years: Democrats are fighting proof of citizenship because they want non-citizens voting. In an exclusive interview with The Gateway Pundit, the Missouri Republican delivered a no-holds-barred takedown of the left’s opposition to the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act. “So that non-citizens can vote. I mean, I think there is no doubt about th…
Trump, in Europe, plays hardball with Senate GOP; Doubles down on SAVE America Act
by WorldTribune Staff, June 17, 2026 Non-AI Real World News His judicial appointments and the SAVE America Act, President Donald Trump’s most important agenda item in the view of his base, are being sabotaged by his own party who is unwilling to end “blue slipping” and the filibuster. The president, however, is undeterred and applying […]
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ReportWireRepublicans In Total Disarray As Trump Pushes For SAVE America Act That Will Never Pass
The SAVE America Act is never going to pass. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) has said it over and over again. Republicans do not have the votes in the Senate to abolish the filibuster, and even if they did, at least 4 Republicans are opposed to the SAVE America Act, so it doesn’t have enough votes to pass with a simple majority. The votes just aren’t there. Trump’s latest stunt to force Senate Republicans to pass his midterm election ri…
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