Four GOP senators vote against adding Save America Act to budget package
by Alexander Bolton - 04/23/26 1:56 AM ET
Four Republican senators voted against an amendment sponsored by Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) to instruct the Senate Rules Committee to find a way to add the core elements of the SAVE America Act to a budget reconciliation package that could pass next month with a simple-majority vote.
Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) and Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) voted against Kennedy’s proposed instruction to the Senate Rules Committee to craft a bill that would ensure only American citizens vote in federal elections, require all voters to show proof of identity, and eliminate early voting.
Those are some of the key elements of the SAVE America Act, which President Trump has made his top legislative priority ahead of the midterm elections.
“This amendment would instruct our Rules Committee to come up with an elections bill. It’s my version of the SAVE America Act, but you can call it what you want,” Kennedy said on the floor before the vote.
Some proponents of the SAVE America Act, including Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), have argued that the legislation wasn’t drafted to pass the Senate under the budget reconciliation process, which generally prohibits policy changes with only a tangential budgetary impact from passing with a simple-majority vote.
Kennedy, however, argued that it was worth trying to fit it into the budget reconciliation package.
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