House GOP Looks To Push SAVE Act Through In Way Senate Dems Cannot Stop It

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Johnson’s strategy to bypass Democrats’ SAVE Act blockade survives key vote, handing GOP big win

Speaker Mike Johnson’s latest bid to skirt Democrats’ opposition to an election integrity bill backed by President Donald Trump survived a key hurdle on Monday evening.

The Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act has faced significant headwinds in Congress despite having Trump’s full-throated support. While it passed the House, the legislation has struggled in the Senate where at least several Democratic votes are needed to break a filibuster and advance to final passage.

But the new plan by Johnson, R-La., which would allow key parts of the bill to skirt Democrats entirely, is one step closer to getting a House-wide vote sometime this week.

Republicans would erase the need for any Democratic buy-in by putting key elements of the SAVE America Act into a larger budget reconciliation bill. The reconciliation process allows the party in power to pass sweeping fiscal policy reforms without input from their opposition by lowering the Senate’s threshold for passage to line up with the House’s simple majority requirement.

Because reconciliation bills need to be about things like spending, Johnson will use the bill to fund election integrity matters, military spending, and funding farmers.

But, the problem here is still the Senate, because you have idiots like Thom Tillis and Lisa Murkowski

Presler Criticizes Murkowski’s SAVE Act Excuse: ‘That’s Just Not True’

Conservative activist Scott Presler fired back this week after Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) argued in a Friday op-ed that the SAVE America Act would disenfranchise rural Alaskans and could not be implemented in time for November.

Murkowski made her case in the Wall Street Journal and pushed it out again in a post on X. She told followers she backs voter ID and wants only citizens voting. The bill, she argued, goes too far.

“I support voter ID and believe that only U.S. citizens should vote in our elections,” the Alaska senator wrote. “But the SAVE America Act goes beyond that and provides no time for proper implementation. It would ultimately disenfranchise some Americans in rural communities, so I oppose it.” (snip)

“That’s just not true,” the activist wrote in a reply. “No person would be turned away from voting. Any person without documentation would be able to sign an attestation. The SAVE America Act does NOT require proof of citizenship for those already registered to vote.”

The founder of Early Vote Action challenged Murkowski to draft a fix rather than kill the bill.

“Why don’t you suggest an amendment which would allow remote Alaskan voters to attach a copy of their proof of citizenship + photo ID to an absentee ballot?” Presler wrote.

And therein lies the important point: this is about new people registering, not existing people, as anyone registered would sign said attestation. What it would seriously cause a problem with is registration drives, which Democrats love to use to register anyone and then go back with all sorts of vote gatherings. We should know who the hell is voting in the US and if they are actually allowed to vote.

So, the problem here is there might not be enough votes in the Senate to get it to pass with Murkowski, Tillis, and possible Collins voting against it.