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Trump: No shutdown deal until Democrats support SAVE America Act
Trump demands Democrats pass the SAVE America Act, linking DHS funding to voter ID and citizenship proof amid a five-week shutdown causing TSA staffing shortages.
- On Sunday, President Donald Trump demanded that any Department of Homeland Security funding deal include the SAVE America Act, which requires voter ID and proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections.
- The Department of Homeland Security has been unfunded since February 14, leaving Transportation Security Administration officers without pay for five weeks and prompting widespread absences and resignations among airport security staff.
- Trump ordered ICE agents to deploy at major airports starting Monday to assist security screenings, while calling a proposed $5 billion cut to ICE funding "unacceptable" unless his legislative demands are included.
- Senate Democrats continue blocking the SAVE America Act as voter suppression legislation, while Trump pressured Senate Majority Leader John Thune to publicly identify Republicans opposing his bundled bill, threatening their re-election.
- The impasse enters its 36th day with the bill requiring 60 votes to overcome the filibuster, yet polling shows 83% of citizens support voter ID requirements, complicating Senate Democrats' unified opposition.
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President Trump Invokes Jesus While Pushing Senate to Pass the SAVE America Act
President Donald Trump continued his unrelenting pressure on the Senate to pass the SAVE America Act with election reforms that include a requirement for voter ID. A version of the […] The post President Trump Invokes Jesus While Pushing Senate to Pass the SAVE America Act appeared first on The Western Journal.
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Trump tells lawmakers to skip Easter ‘for Jesus’: ‘It would be a damn good thing’
President Donald Trump Monday invoked the name of Jesus Christ in a call for lawmakers to scrap their Easter break and stay in Washington, D.C. to try to pass his package of new voting restrictions.
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