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Republicans brace for Trump SAVE Act showdown
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Mike Lee and Rick Scott have teed up what could be a tense, confrontational lunch Wednesday with President Trump and Senate Republicans.
Key facts
- Mike Lee and Rick Scott have teed up what could be a tense, confrontational lunch Wednesday with President Trump and Senate Republicans
- The SAVE Act got 48 votes earlier this month when Sen
- Scott (R-Fla.) invited Trump to attend the weekly lunch put on by the conservative Senate GOP Steering Committee
- But Scott and Lee are publicly pushing leadership to use aggressive procedural tactics until the bill passes
Summary
The two spent months pressuring Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) on the SAVE America Act. Trump is fixated on passing the SAVE Act to help Republicans in the midterms. "There are not the votes to nuke the filibuster, and there aren't going to be 10 Democrat votes to all of a sudden support the SAVE America Act," Thune told reporters on Tuesday. SAVE would require voter ID and proof of citizenship, while imposing new restrictions on mail-in voting.