Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s effort to smother expectations that the SAVE America Act could pass the Senate ignited a wildfire of indignation.
The core of the legislation is the requirement for voter ID. President Donald Trump has said he will let other legislation sit on his desk until the Senate approves it. Although Republicans have a 53-47 majority in the Senate, 60 votes are needed for passage, even assuming all Republicans support it.
Thune has worked hard to lower expectations that what is called a “talking filibuster” would get the bill passed.
I asked Thune if he feels pressure to pass SAVE America Act mounting:
“A lot of that is, it’s in that kind of, you know, paid influencer ecosystem,” he said
Adds there’s support among GOP Sens, but “the process & how do you ultimately try & get a result is still unclear to me”
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“Having studied it and researched it pretty thoroughly, you have to show me how, in the end, it prevails and succeeds. Because I think what has been promised out there is that it would actually, in the end, get an outcome. And I find it very hard to see that based on actual past experience,” he said recently, according toNBC News.
“We can’t find a piece of legislation in history that’s been passed that way,” he said.
But on Monday, he veered into bashing its supporters, telling an NBC reporter who asked about the pressure to pass the bill, “A lot of that is, it’s in that kind of, you know, paid influencer ecosystem,” according to aposton social media plaform X.
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