GOP Senators Clash Over 50-Vote SAVE Act Strategy as Trump Presses Expanded Version
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Updated · Fox News · Jun 30
GOP Senators Clash Over 50-Vote SAVE Act Strategy as Trump Presses Expanded Version
3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Jun 30
Summary
Mike Lee and John Cornyn traded public attacks over whether a "talking filibuster" could force Senate action on the stalled SAVE America Act, exposing a GOP split that had largely stayed behind closed doors.
Cornyn called the tactic historically futile and warned it would consume scarce floor time, force politically painful amendment votes and still risk delaying the bill past the election; Lee argued those hurdles were manageable and preferable to dropping the effort.
Trump has intensified the pressure after the Supreme Court let late-arriving mail ballots be counted, urging Republicans to pass his broader SAVE version even though it lacks 50 GOP votes in the Senate.
That Trump-backed version adds limits on mail-in ballots and transgender-related provisions beyond the House-passed voter ID and citizenship bill, while the House is also trying to attach the measure to the must-pass NDAA.
Most Senate Republicans back the original SAVE bill, but the fight over procedure and Trump's expanded demands underscores how unlikely passage remains in the chamber.