Senators head for the exits without meeting Trump’s demands for voting bill
Senators advanced other Trump priorities but failed to clear the voting bill, then agreed to try again in a September budget package.
- Senate Republicans departed for summer recess, ending a standoff over President Donald Trump's demand to abolish the legislative filibuster and pass the SAVE America Act, a strict proof-of-citizenship voting bill.
- For weeks, Trump pressured Senate Majority Leader John Thune to abandon the 60-vote threshold, but the SAVE America Act lacked sufficient support among the slim Republican majority, who resisted changing the chamber's rules.
- Following a late-night call with the president, Sen. Ron Johnson, Sen. Mike Lee, and Sen. Rick Scott announced an alternative plan: attaching voting bill elements to a broader budget package for the Pentagon when the Senate returns in September.
- During the 20-hour session, Thune confirmed Attorney General Todd Blanche, passed Russian sanctions, and approved a government funding package, despite managing a slim majority with Sen. Mitch McConnell absent.
- The standoff illustrates Trump's ongoing struggle to master the Senate, where established rules and slim margins continue to constrain his legislative agenda despite his de facto speaker ambitions.
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The Daily SignalLate-Night Senate Session Ends With SAVE America Defeat
By VIRGINIA GRACE MCKINNON, The Daily Signal | August 08, 2026 The U.S. Senate adjourned early Saturday morning after a long night of votes and debate, failing to pass one of President Trump’s most pressing priorities, the SAVE American Act. Though Republicans had some wins, they left the fight for the legislation to secure U.S. elections until they return to Washington in September. “Tragically, the Save America vote on the voter ID component f…
OKLAHOMA VOICE: U.S. Senate leaves town for recess after passing stopgap spending bill, blocking photo ID for voting
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate adjourned for its summer recess early Saturday after approving a stopgap spending bill but declining to advance legislation that would require photo ID for voting.
Senate Leaves for August Recess Without Passing Trump-Backed SAVE America Act
The U.S. Senate departed Washington for its August recess last week without passing the SAVE America Act, a Trump-backed voting bill, after an all-night session that instead produced a middle-of-the-night confirmation vote and a decision to shelve a companion budget resolution. The SAVE America Act would amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require documentary proof of citizenship, such as a passport, birth certificate or natural…
Inside the Senate’s chaotic all-nighter that left Trump’s SAVE America Act on the shelf
During the long night to send the Senate home, deals were brokered, major legislation was punted and promises were extended. The SAVE America Act never made it off the shelf, despite promises up and down from its biggest proponents to thwart any attempt to leave Washington, D.C., without trying to pass it. And the vehicle to blast through Democratic objections and pass parts of the bill never left the garage, either. But it all nearly fell apart…
Minnesota election experts: SAVE America Act would disrupt voting to fix ‘a problem that doesn’t exist’
The set of voter registration reforms known as the SAVE America Act that has become a top political priority of President Donald Trump would impose massive burdens on the people and systems that ensure Minnesota elections operate securely and smoothly – and for unclear benefits – state election officials and experts say. “We’d be going back in time to where people had to go to a government office and show particular documents” to prove their ide…
GOP senators fear Trump-induced headache over voter suppression bill
Republican senators are gearing up to get hammered by President Donald Trump all the way up to the midterms over their inability to pass his favored and highly controversial SAVE America Act. Trump has made the act such a priority that he intentionally refused to sign a bipartisan housing bill aimed at making homes more affordable in an effort to pressure the Senate to pass it. The SAVE America Act would require Americans to provide proof of cit…
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