Four GOP Senators Join Democrats to Block SAVE Act Amendment to $70 Billion Package

3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Jun 6

Four Republican senators — Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Mitch McConnell and Thom Tillis — joined Democrats in a Thursday vote-a-rama to defeat an amendment adding the SAVE Act to the Senate reconciliation bill.
The amendment would have required documentary proof of U.S. citizenship for federal voter registration and photo ID for voting, but opponents argued election rules should remain primarily under state control rather than federal law.
Josh Hawley, who backed the measure, blasted the defections and said voter ID is widely supported, arguing Congress already sets federal election rules and that 37 states already have voter ID requirements.
The failed push came after months of Republican debate over attaching the election measure to a roughly $70 billion package aimed at funding ICE and Border Patrol.

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