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Thune Says Senate to Consider Voting Bill but Pushes Back on Demands for 'Talking Filibuster'
Senate Majority Leader John Thune plans a symbolic vote on the SAVE America Act despite lacking the 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster, with Trump demanding its passage.
- On Tuesday, March 10, 2026, Senate Majority Leader John Thune said he will bring the SAVE America Act to the Senate floor next week but warned, 'The votes aren't there, one, to nuke the filibuster, and the votes aren't there for a talking filibuster.'
- Passed by the House last month, the SAVE America Act would require proof of citizenship to register and photo ID to vote, which Democrats say could disenfranchise 20 million American voters.
- President Donald Trump has urged adding a ban on universal mail-in ballots and restrictions on transgender athletes and gender-affirming care, vowing not to sign other bills until the SAVE America Act passes.
- Senate GOP leaders are preparing a messaging vote next week that many MAGA activists say will disappoint, while Thune says he will force Democrats to vote on noncitizen voting but cannot guarantee passage.
- With only 53 Republican senators, Republicans lack the 60-vote cloture threshold and Thune said, "We have tried to see if there's a way we could thread the needle and use reconciliation, and it's just, you kind of come back to the same place.
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Senate leadership doesn’t budge on filibuster
Senate Republican leadership is not budging against pressure to use a so-called talking filibuster to pass the party’s voter identification legislation, despite President Donald Trump’s adding weight to that dogpile this week. “We don’t have the votes either to proceed to get on a talking filibuster, nor to sustain one if we got on it,” said […]
John Thune (R-SD) said he will send to vote the SAVE Act, a Republican electoral reform proposal. The bill would require people who register to vote in federal elections to present a citizenship test and a photo ID. However, the Republican majority leader in the Senate remarked that he cannot guarantee a successful vote.Read more
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Loonie PoliticsThune says Senate to consider voting bill but pushes back on demands for ‘talking filibuster’
Majority Leader John Thune says that the Senate will consider a bill to impose strict new proof-of-citizenship requirements in elections. But the South Dakota Republican on Tuesday said “the votes aren’t there” to pass it through a marathon talking filibuster sought by President Donald Trump.
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