Can you imagine this happening if Democrats were trying to get something in their own budget package? Nope. They’d be bribing and cajoling, much like they did with Sinema and Manchin for Biden’s big green bill. How they got Obamacare passed
Republicans fail to attach SAVE America Act to party-line funding package
A cohort of Senate Republicans joined Democrats to sink a late-night attempt to attach a version of voter ID and citizenship verification legislation to the GOP’s bill funding federal immigration enforcement.
Sens. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., all voted against a modified version of the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act early Thursday morning.
Their defection came during the Senate’s marathon “vote-a-rama,” where lawmakers could force votes on any number of amendments, regardless of whether they mesh with the underlying budget blueprint.
The amendment’s 48-to-50 failure crystallized what several Republicans had warned for weeks before launching a quasi-floor takeover to debate the SAVE America Act last month — it didn’t have the support among the GOP to pass.
Tillis, who’s out at the end of 2026, used to be reliable, but, went full Squish over the past two years. Collins and Murkowski were expected. McConnell is always a hit or miss.
It appears the proposal was doomed even if Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., launched an oral filibuster to advance the measure with a simple 50-vote majority.
Thune didn’t seem to want to try and get it passed. He seriously could have bribed them to get their votes in the time honored manner of politics, but, no. He’s never pushed it hard despite a vast majority of Republicans wanting it, and a vast majority of Americans.
Looking forwards to the midterms?
The House will be Dem
The Senate 50/50
“wacko” climate change denier Trump is taking his party down. All our former allies including Australia hate him and his idiotic war that has gone completely out of his control with his fantasy’s of his omnipotence.
Most divisive president ever !
Johnny boy-show us where Trump denies that the climate is changing. Good luck. As said before, climate “mantras” in lieu of evidence
Sadly, Senator McConnell, who will also be out after the end of this year, hates President Trump as well.