With SAVE Act Stalled in Senate, Red States Carry Water for Trump's Non-Citizen Voting Myth
Source: Talking Points Memo
03.03.26 | 3:57 pm
Taking a cue from the Trump administration amid its ongoing efforts to suppress the vote and perpetuate the myth of non-citizen voting, red state lawmakers are introducing restrictive proof of citizenship bills in their state legislatures.
Experts tell TPM it is no coincidence that these various state-level bills have advanced just as the Trump administration struggles to get Congress to pass both the SAVE America Act and the Make Elections Great Again Act, which both seek to mandate documentary proof of citizenship for voter registration in federal elections. “You’re seeing states sort of take that policy agenda and actually move with it in a way that, maybe it hasn’t been able to move to (at) the federal level,” Chris Diaz, Director of Legislative Tracking at Voting Rights Lab, told TPM.
Earlier this month, the U.S. House passed the SAVE America Act in a 218-213 vote. The bill, however, is now stalled in the Senate due to the filibuster. A previous iteration of the SAVE America Act, the SAVE Act, failed to progress out of the Senate, so the fate of this current federal legislation remains unclear.
President Trump has been pressuring Republicans to change filibuster rules in order to pass the legislation, but Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) has maintained that there is not an appetite for such an action in the Republican conference, at the moment. There are currently 26 active proof of citizenship bills pending in 15 states right now, according to a Voting Rights Lab tracker.
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