Overview
- Pressed by reporters at a White House event Tuesday, President Trump said he was disappointed with Senate Majority Leader John Thune and called some Republican holdouts “foolish” for keeping the filibuster.
- Trump urged Republicans to kill the 60-vote hurdle and warned that Democrats would end it if they return to power, repeating his claim that broad mail-in voting invites cheating.
- The SAVE America Act is the GOP’s voter ID and citizenship-verification proposal, requiring identification to cast a ballot and proof of U.S. citizenship to register for federal elections.
- A test vote to attach a version of the measure to a GOP funding plan last month failed to reach even a simple majority, underscoring the bill’s weak footing in the Senate.
- Reporting from Capitol Hill says many Republicans oppose scrapping the filibuster, a Senate rule that forces most bills to clear 60 votes and protects the minority’s leverage.