{"id":21613,"date":"2026-03-12T01:52:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T01:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/the-save-act-standoff\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T01:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T01:52:13","slug":"the-save-act-standoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/the-save-act-standoff\/","title":{"rendered":"The SAVE Act Standoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">A hot debate has now broken out in the Republican Party over the so-called SAVE Act.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Republicans support the SAVE Act, which would force voter ID nationally. Democrats in the Senate have been holding it up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">President Trump correctly <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/program\/white-house-event\/president-trump-addresses-house-republicans-at-annual-retreat\/674954\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">points out <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400\">that the SAVE Act is quite popular with Americans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u201cEven the Democrats \u2014 you saw the numbers today?\u2014 Democrats voted 86% that this stuff should be passed,\u201d he noted. \u201cWith the Republicans, you\u2019re at 98%. But Democrats are at 86%, except for the people that run the Democrat Party, because they want to try and win elections illegally. The only reason you vote against voter I.D. is because you want to cheat. There\u2019s no other reason. They come up with reasons; they say it\u2019s racist. That\u2019s their number one: racist. Then they have to explain it, and they\u2019re just sitting there mumbling. They can\u2019t explain it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">President Trump has also been having fun <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/program\/white-house-event\/president-trump-addresses-house-republicans-at-annual-retreat\/674954\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">mocking<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> Chuck Schumer: \u201cIt\u2019s the easiest thing we have. Now the problem is you call it the SAVE Act, and nobody knew what the hell the SAVE Act was. \u2026 It\u2019s called \u2018The Save America Act\u2019. And I saw Schumer yesterday: \u2018We will stop Save America.\u2019 He\u2019s getting killed. They can\u2019t do it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">President Trump says that Republicans should <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/program\/white-house-event\/president-trump-addresses-house-republicans-at-annual-retreat\/674954\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">not approve anything<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> until the SAVE Act passes:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u201cBut they have to get it done. Because if we don\u2019t get this done, if it takes six months, I\u2019m for not approving anything. I don\u2019t think we should approve anything until this is approved. And they can\u2019t win politically. Look, you have them in a corner, and they\u2019re listening to every word I\u2019m saying. It doesn\u2019t matter because they can\u2019t win it politically. Because when they say, \u2018We don\u2019t want voter identification. We don\u2019t want proof of citizenship,\u201d all these things are just losers for them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Chuck Schumer, for his part, keeps arguing that if we clean the voter rolls of people who have moved or are dead and require people to use voter ID, somehow this is going to result in mass voter disenfranchisement, a proposition that pretty much no one actually agrees with.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u201cIt allows ICE to kick tens of millions of people off the rolls, off the rolls, and they don\u2019t tell them until Election Day,\u201d he <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/program\/news-conference\/senate-democratic-agenda\/675075\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">huffed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400\">. \u201cAnd you show them, you say. \u2018You\u2019re not registered anymore, you\u2019re not registered here, you\u2019re not on the rolls.\u2019 And they say, \u2018I didn\u2019t know that.\u2019 This is a bill that destroys the country. And it is not about showing ID when you show up to vote. It\u2019s about the voter registration rolls, destroying them, purging them, not letting people know, and taking the rights in an algorithm put together by ICE, put together by DOGE and Musk. It\u2019s an outrage.\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">If you just say DOGE or Musk three times in a row, Beetlejuice appears, according to Chuck Schumer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/episode\/ep-2385-iranian-propaganda-syndrome?elementPosition=1&amp;row=0&amp;rowHeadline=Recent+Episodes&amp;rowType=Horizontal+Show+Episodes+Carousel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-974957\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2025\/09\/511983dad25841c8b1ec058d75769bbe-1024x171.webp\" alt=\"DailyWire+\" width=\"1024\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2025\/09\/511983dad25841c8b1ec058d75769bbe-1024x171.webp 1024w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2025\/09\/511983dad25841c8b1ec058d75769bbe-300x50.webp 300w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2025\/09\/511983dad25841c8b1ec058d75769bbe-768x128.webp 768w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2025\/09\/511983dad25841c8b1ec058d75769bbe-1536x256.webp 1536w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2025\/09\/511983dad25841c8b1ec058d75769bbe-2048x341.webp 2048w\" sizes=\"auto,  (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">This is silly. If you can\u2019t abide by the law with regard to voting, you shouldn\u2019t vote. And if you moved and you didn\u2019t tell them you moved, then you probably should tell them you moved. Democrats trying to turn basic adult functions into some sort of Mensa test are lying. It\u2019s not that hard to register to vote. It\u2019s not hard to determine where and how to vote. People have been figuring it out for decades.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">But now, because Democrats are trying to filibuster the SAVE Act in the Senate, to prevent it from passing by forcing Republicans to find 60 votes in the Senate, President Trump is talking about killing the filibuster.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Senate Majority Leader John Thune, by contrast, says, no, we\u2019re not doing that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u201cWe don\u2019t have the votes either to proceed, get on a talking filibuster, nor to sustain one if we got on it,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/-EQvN-hLoz0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stated<\/a>. \u201cBut that is just a function of math. \u2026 I understand the president\u2019s got a passion to see this issue addressed, as we all do. We\u2019ll continue to make that argument because I think it\u2019s important that everybody understands this is really about the votes. It\u2019s about the math.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">A lot of people are asking, why doesn\u2019t Thune kill the filibuster? The answer is simple. He\u2019s concerned if Republicans kill the filibuster, the next time the Democrats have a majority in the House and the Senate and run the presidency, they simply run roughshod over Republicans and essentially end any chance of possible parity in future elections, all with just 51 votes. They add new states, they add new senators, and they change the voting rules and all the rest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">There have been two arguments that have been put out there to counter John Thune\u2019s argument. First, there\u2019s the argument that Republicans should end what\u2019s known as the \u201ctalking filibuster.\u201d When most people think about the filibuster, they think of Jimmy Stewart talking for hours until he faints in the film \u201cMr. Smith goes to Washington.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">It takes 60 votes to ensure \u201ccloture,\u201d which means to stop a talking filibuster. Under Senate Rule 19, each senator can speak twice per day. Members of the same party can hold the floor continuously. Theoretically, Johnson could force Democrats to do that, get up there and just talk and talk and talk and talk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">In the past, however, opposing parties have allowed the so-called \u201csilent filibuster,\u201d a filibuster that all agree would be possible in the absence of talking for days at a time. People basically say, \u201cYou don\u2019t have 60 votes. Instead of making us talk for weeks on end, we are not going to do that. You don\u2019t have 60 votes to kill it anyway.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">So why doesn\u2019t John Thune kill the silent filibuster? There are a few practical reasons. First, if 47 Democrats each gave six-hour speeches and did that continuously in a cycle, they could stop the business of the Senate for months. The only way to keep the Senate in session, in order to keep the pressure on Democrats to keep talking, would be for Republicans to maintain a quorum, meaning 51 senators nearby. If they didn\u2019t have a quorum, if somebody goes home and suddenly there are 49 senators, Democrats can move to adjourn the session, the clock restarts, and all the senators can speak twice again. Which means that killing the silent filibuster basically ensures pain, but not gain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">That\u2019s not going to stop critics from attacking Senator Thune and other Republicans as somehow feeble or insufficient in their defense of conservative policy. That\u2019s always the rap from people in my industry toward politicians: \u201cThe reason that Republicans don\u2019t do enough is a lack of will. If only they had more Nietzschean willpower! Or maybe they\u2019re corrupt?\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">But that\u2019s not what\u2019s happening. The simple case here is that in the Senate, which happens to be a more collegial body than the House, Republicans must always have one eye on the question of what happens when the political shoe is on the other foot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Just as Democrats killed the judicial filibuster only to watch Republicans stack the Supreme Court, Republicans have to be careful not to kill the filibuster on other issues, just to watch Democrats ram through fundamental changes to the nature of American life and law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Democrats are obstructing, there\u2019s no question about it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">They aren\u2019t interested in honest voting.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/the-save-act-standoff\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hot debate has now broken out in the Republican Party over the so-called SAVE Act. Republicans support the SAVE Act, which would force voter ID nationally. Democrats in the Senate have been holding it up. President Trump correctly points out that the SAVE Act is quite popular with Americans. \u201cEven the Democrats \u2014 you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21613","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-current-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}