Supporters say GOP’s SAVE America Act won’t affect women’s voting rights. Here’s why that’s false
Anti-voting activists have claimed the GOP’s SAVE America Act wouldn’t harm the voting rights of married women. Here’s why that’s false.
Anti-voting activists have claimed the GOP’s SAVE America Act wouldn’t harm the voting rights of married women. Here’s why that’s false.
President Donald Trump has repeatedly urged Senate Republicans to pass the SAVE America Act, calling it his “Number 1 priority,” and opposing efforts to reopen DHS first, even though the bill lacks the support needed to clear Democratic opposition. So, now lawmakers are floating a new plan: attach the SAVE America Act to a reconciliation bill, which would only need 50 votes to clear the Senate instead of the 60 required to end a filibuster.
The only problem? It wouldn’t work.
Privately, Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) has acknowledged that married women and others who have changed their legal name face barriers while registering to vote if the draconian SAVE America Act became law.
President Donald Trump ordered Republicans to refuse any deal to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) unless Democrats agree to pass the SAVE America Act.
This was the week when MAGA Republicans finally got what they’d been demanding for so long: A full Senate debate on the SAVE America Act, President Donald Trump’s monster voter suppression bill.
In the first week of Senate debate over the SAVE America Act, Republicans laid bare their anti-voting agenda — not a serious policy discussion, but a spiraling mix of conspiracy theories, culture war grievances and increasingly extreme rhetoric as the bill’s path to passage all but disappears.
As Senate debate over the SAVE America Act drags on, President Donald Trump accused Democrats of opposing the bill because they intend to cheat in elections.
Influential right-wing figures and GOP lawmakers are pushing misleading claims and obfuscating facts about the measure.
Sen. Andy Kim (D-N.J.) wants to make one thing clear: The SAVE America Act is a modern-day poll tax.
FBI Director Kash Patel testified before a House committee Thursday that he didn’t know the number of active investigations the bureau is conducting into foreigners voting in U.S. elections.