Trump allies plan Senate floor takeover to pass SAVE America Act

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

President Trump’s allies are planning to take over the Senate floor this week in a bid to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act, setting up a major test for Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.), who is under pressure from Trump and the MAGA base to extend the debate over voting reform for as long as possible.

GOP senators are playing their cards close to the vest ahead of this week’s marathon debate over the SAVE America Act, which would require people registering to vote to show documented proof of citizenship.

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Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), a leading proponent of the bill, says Trump wants to see Republicans go all out and is envisioning an epic floor fight, like the two-month battle that preceded the Senate’s passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

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Lee recalled that during the battle over the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the Senate stayed in session for 60 days “and used an approach that is similar to what I think we ought to do here.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-allies-plan-senate-floor-100000472.html

Lee compares this with the 1964 Civil Rights Act? What a horse's ass.

Elsewhere this article claims 71% of register voters support the Save Act per a recent Harvard CAPS/Harris poll.

Looking at other results from said poll leaves me skeptical. For example, it says 50% of Democrats support the Save Act.

None-the-less I think more people need to know what the Save Act would really do.

[CousinIT]

1. If you asked most people what the SAVE Act does, the would have no clue.

Sad fact.

Someone on BlueSky said we should call it the "SAVE GOP Act" - unfortunately, the BlueSky link didn't work when I posted it earlier.

[Johonny]

10. The media says the save act is popular

But most people don't even know what is in the save act.

This is like saying Obama care was deeply unpopular, but then most people were in favor of everything inside ACA bill.

The Save Act will go straight to the courts if passed.

[John Farmer]

15. The Board of Elections representative that I talked to

this morning didn't know if our state had any particular plan for the possibility that the SAVE act might pass.

[Lovie777]

2. Registered voters do not support the act......

gaslighting and lying ….

[Boo1]

3. Lol

Republicans strategy is just to talk about it for so long we get tired and pass it?


Good luck.

I'm betting the more they talk about it, the worse it looks.

[DJ Synikus Makisimus]

4. Fetterman and who else will bipartisan on this?

Because bothsidesism and liberal tolerance of the views of others and those are our friends over there 'cross that aisle. And maybe if we're nice they'll invite us to the next Republican orgy (I do sometimes miss Madison Cawthorn)

[GoneOffShore]

6. Just called Fetterman's office. His staffer said he does NOT support the SAVE Act.

[intheflow]

5. Wow, that whole poll is bullshit.

52% of voters says the economy is better now than under Biden? N O B O D Y sane thinks that.

[progressoid]

18. That poll is over 2 weeks old. Before the war and before gas prices shot up.

But, yeah, it's bullshit.

FWIW, it's run by Mark Penn.

https://harvardharrispoll.com/key-results-february-2026/

[Mr.Bee]

7. Suppress American Voter Eligibility (SAVE American billionaires) Act

nt

[themaguffin]

8. What exactly are they planning to do? How does "staying in session" make a difference. Is there a...

Senate procedure that will happen?

[littlemissmartypants]

9. Many are inferring what the SAVE ACT means. Few have even read it. If you're interested in what it actually says...

https://democraticunderground.com/100221096507

Has a link to an article with a summarization.

EVERYONE here should read it and we all need to be calling/writing our representation, from the local boards to the state governments to Washington, DC to question their knowledge of the act, and express our concerns.

Otherwise many of our friends, family and neighbors, whether we agree with them or not, with be disenfranchised.

[bluestarone]

11. I would like to see Democrats (i'm sure they will) speak to the EXACT reasons why this bill is

TOTAL BULLSHIT!! Then Highlight it EVERYDAY until November election. People need to hear the DUMB SHIT in this bill!!

[Wiz Imp]

12. They're delusional

from the linked article

“How long it goes is going to be instructive because the point of this is exhausting Democrats, the point of it is pain, the point of it is forcing a public and political process and seeing what comes out of it,” said a Republican strategist who favors a showdown with Democrats over the legislation.

“Debating a bill that continues to get more popular even as people are trying to slow it down and stop it and obstruct it sometimes sharpens the minds of individual lawmakers and makes them more amenable in the end to negotiation,” Lee added. “That’s what we’re looking at here.”

They seriously think that forcing them to debate will cause Democrats to change their minds? How stupid can they be? The longer this goes on, the more the Democrats will dig in. This will just make the Republicans look even more stupid than they already do.

They think the bill is popular when it clearly is not. Requiring voter ID is popular. If the bill only did that, it would pass. Everything else about the bill is not at all popular. The longer they drag out debate, the more opportunity for Democrats to inform the public why it's a terrible bill. The longer this drags on, the more UNpopular the bill will become. This will blow up in the Republicans' faces.

[MLWR]

13. Like Mike Lee was anywhere near the Senate in 1964.

[dalton99a]

14. Kick

[duhneece]

16. Is it possible that passing it would create fewer Republican votes

….than Democratic votes? I’m definitely not hoping it passes but if it does, I can see it backfiring big time.

[BurnDoubt]

17. We must pressure the networks and all media to...

Carry this and highlight the various issues so nobody can say they weren’t informed. And we need to see embarrassing questions being asked and hear them being answered in real time from a direct link.
Up til now, it looks as though the instances of know voter fraud have been largely by Republicans, but they can’t say that.
This is just one part of a brazen attempt to influence the next Election by creating barriers and burdens to discourage voting.
I admit to a personal bias. I believe that each Citizen should be required to vote to retain their status as Citizens and to be entitled to the rights, privileges and responsibilities of Citizenship. You’re either on the bus or you are off the bus.