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Trump Demands an All-but-Doomed Bill. The Value for Him May Be in the Fight.
The SAVE America Act, which the president wants to use to address issues like voting and transgender surgeries, allows him to try to shift the conversation from worries over inflation and war.
The SAVE America Act, which President Trump envisions as legislation that can both crack down on illegal immigrants voting and transgender surgeries, is not the type of bill that appears designed to pass into law. Democrats detest it, Republicans have few realistic options to maneuver around them to advance it, and the two sides have engaged in no serious negotiations.
“Because of the rules of the Senate, it’s very hard for them to get the number” of votes needed, he lamented on Thursday.
Did Senate pass SAVE Act in rare Sunday session? Status of voter bill
The Senate’s rare weekend session continued Sunday with the GOP pushing to get the SAVE America Act passed.
Also during Sunday’s session, President Donald Trump's nomination of Republican Senator Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma for director of the Department of Homeland Security moved toward confirmation after the Senate voted 54-37 to limit debate on the appointment.
The confirmation vote could come Monday, making Mullin the replacement for Secretary Kristi Noem, whom Trump fired.
Senate debate over the SAVE Act opened Sunday’s session at noon. Already contentious, an amendment sponsored by Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) to bar transgender athletes from participating in women's sports is an addendum to the GOP-fashioned SAVE Act.
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Competing Claims on SAVE America Act Disenfranchising Voters
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has said the SAVE America Act “could disenfranchise over 20 million American citizens,” while Republicans dispute that the voter registration and ID bill would block any legitimate voters. Election experts say the bill, which isn’t expected to pass, would make it difficult for some unknown number of voters to register and cast a vote.
At times, Schumer has used more definitive language about the bill’s impact, saying that “more than 20 million legitimate people … will not be able to vote under this law” or that it “would disenfranchise tens of millions of people.”
Walter Olson, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute’s Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies, told us the legislation wouldn’t meet the dictionary definition of “disenfranchise,” which is to “deprive a person of the right to vote.” But it would, as described by Democratic Sen. Patty Murray, “‘make it harder and more expensive for [many people] to [register and] vote,'” Olson said in an email. “That extra hassle and expense would mean that some citizens eligible to register and vote will in practice not complete the needed process even though the bill does not take away their legal right to register or to vote.
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