All posts tagged "Save Act"

President Donald Trump's push for voting restrictions is complicating an already troubled Iran war funding bill, according to the New York Times.

GOP senators are rejecting the idea of bolting strict new voting restrictions laid out in the SAVE Act onto a massive Iran war spending bill, imperiling its odds of survival, a new report reads. The report described the bill as "a product that no one really likes."

House Republican leaders unveiled a roughly $95 billion funding package this week that would steer up to $73 billion to the military, $12 billion to farmers, and $10 billion toward enforcing the voting overhaul that Trump has championed, the Times reported....

Veteran journalist Dan Rather is warning that legislation that Trump is trying to push through threatens women's right to vote.

In a recent piece titled "The War on Women," Rather tried to lay out how the Trump administration is going after women's rights.

"Trump's campaign promise to protect women, 'whether the women like it or not,' has become more of a threat," Rather wrote. "His policies and executive orders undermine women's economic and reproductive freedoms while pushing them out of the workforce and into the home."...

President Donald Trump has seemingly cooled on pushing the SAVE Act through the Senate, but the GOP is splintering under the weight of the bill.

The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act is legislation championed by President Donald Trump that would require voters to provide proof of citizenship to register to vote.

Trump has made the SAVE Act a top legislative priority, declaring in March 2026 that he will not sign any other bills into law until the SAVE Act reaches his desk.
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The war in Iran has worn down President Donald Trump's spirit and sidetracked his "culture war obsessions," an analyst explained on Monday.

Salon's Amanda Marcotte discussed how Trump has tried to convince the American public to support the ongoing war in the Middle East. Despite his attempts during his address to the nation last week, he "sounded like a whipped dog, barely able to summon the energy to make false promises about ending the war 'very shortly.'"

Trump has also attempted to redirect attention from Iran back to his "culture war fixations." ...

WASHINGTON — Democrats have continued to push back on the SAVE Act while Republicans were pushing for what President Donald Trump has called the number one GOP priority, and now the Senate plans to continue debating the controversial bill all weekend.

If passed into law, the Republican-backed legislation would require U.S. citizens to provide voter ID at the ballot box, and mail-in votes would be massively hindered. But some lawmakers have expressed concern that this could ultimately backfire on Republicans, especially ahead of the midterms and 2028 presidential election.

Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) told Raw Story in an exclusive interview that the SAVE Act would greatly impact seniors and disenfranchise them — and that the legislation wasn't about making sure citizens can vote, but instead ensuring that Trump can have federal control of upcoming elections....

The SAVE ACT that Donald Trump is desperate to pass through in time for the upcoming midterms could actually be a huge help to the Democratic Party, a New York Times columnist warned the president Wednesday.

Trump has said the number one priority for the Republican Party should be pushing through the bill. If passed into law, it would mean U.S. citizens would require voter ID at the ballot box, and mail-in votes would be hindered massively.

This could affect millions of voters, according to The New York Times' Jamelle Bouie — who suggests those hindrances of voter ID could be more of a problem for the GOP's voter base than the Dems'. ...