Trump Meets GOP Senators to Lobby for SAVE America Act

President Donald Trump met with GOP senators on Capitol Hill to lobby for the SAVE America Act. Sen. , stated that the legislation lacks the funding and time to be implemented before the November midterm elections.

"Unless they do the work to get to the 60 votes, they know it’s dead, and so all this is theater," Tillis told the Raleigh, North Carolina-based News & Observer. Tillis was one of four Senate Republicans who voted against attaching the SAVE America Act to an immigration enforcement funding bill last month.

Implementing voter ID in North Carolina took one year and required adequate funding, he said.

The current version of the SAVE America Act does not directly allocate funding to states to implement voter ID or its other provisions. The bill cannot be passed through the budget reconciliation process because its provisions lack a direct budgetary impact. Tillis stated that even if the act passed, it would eat into early voting periods or eliminate them entirely.

The Supreme Court issued a decision allowing mail-in ballots to be counted after Election Day. Trump posted on Truth Social that the Supreme Court decision makes it more important than ever to pass the SAVE America Act. Sen.

Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Rep. , have demanded that the Senate take action on the bill.