The Save America Act is going absolutely nowhere, and Fox News anchor Bret Baier just dropped the receipts on why this legislative train wreck keeps piling up.
As Conservative Brief reported, Baier revealed that despite President Donald Trump leaning hard on Republican senators, the bill remains completely stalled in the upper chamber. The House already greenlit this legislation four separate times, but the Senate simply cannot get it across the finish line.
Here is where things get truly spicy. Trump personally showed up to a meeting with Senate Republicans, and it did not exactly go smoothly. The president openly admitted he does not like certain people in the room, telling lawmakers he thinks they already know who those individuals are. Talk about calling people out to their faces!
Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy apparently got into a verbal dust-up with Trump during the gathering. The president had previously thrown his support behind a primary challenger to Cassidy, and Cassidy retaliated by voting to limit presidential authority on Iran. When Cassidy tried posing a question, Trump reportedly cut him off. Cassidy fired back publicly, saying he refuses to be bullied when seeking answers for the American people. So that escalated quickly.
Trump demanded that Republicans eliminate the filibuster entirely to ram through the Save America Act. Senator Tommy Tuberville admitted the pitch may not have changed any minds, suggesting that if lawmakers did not flip after hearing directly from the president, nothing will move them.
Meanwhile, despite all this drama and overwhelming public support for election reform, senators packed their bags and headed home for a five week August recess. They left behind nothing but a theatrical pre-dawn procedural vote on a watered down version that everyone knew was doomed from the start.
Even Senator Mike Lee, one of the bill's loudest champions, threw in the towel. Lee conceded on Friday night that Republicans simply lack the votes to push it through right now. The legislation needs either a simple majority or 60 votes to overcome a Democratic filibuster, and it currently has neither.
The proposed measure would mandate proof of citizenship for voter registration, establish a nationwide voter ID requirement, and dramatically restrict mail-in voting. Trump had ordered the Senate to cancel recess if lawmakers could not deliver results. They chose vacation instead.
Adding another layer to this political circus, Trump pivoted during the meeting to trash Democratic socialists who dominated a recent New York primary. He labeled the candidates being promoted as communists, warning the country will never accept that direction. Democratic socialist candidates swept their races, with one winner declaring a clear mandate from voters.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries tried cooling temperatures by pointing out only two current DSA members sit in the House Democratic Caucus out of 215 total, though he acknowledged that number could soon double.
So to recap this glorious mess: the president is feuding with his own party, senators fled Washington without delivering results, and both sides are battling internal rebellions. Welcome to American politics in all its chaotic glory.
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