<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">Four Senate Republicans <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/four-senate-republicans-unite-dems-block-trumps-save-america-act">joined</a> every single Democrat to kill President Donald Trump&#8217;s chosen election integrity legislation for the second time — but Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) fired back with a procedural masterstroke that showed exactly what&#8217;s standing between the SAVE America Act and the president&#8217;s desk: the filibuster.</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Mitch McConnell (R-KY), and Thom Tillis (R-NC) once again crossed the aisle to block the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, which would require proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections and a photo ID to cast a ballot. The amendment, offered by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) as an attachment to the nearly $70 billion reconciliation package funding ICE and Border Patrol, needed 60 votes to clear the filibuster threshold. It never came close.</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">Graham didn&#8217;t pull punches after the vote. &#8220;There&#8217;s no other reason to say you don&#8217;t have to have an ID,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It just makes cheating easier.&#8221;</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">Lee then dropped the hammer and took aim at the &#8220;Zombie Filibuster,&#8221; the modern version of the filibuster that allows senators to obstruct legislation without maintaining a talking filibuster.</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">&#8220;51 votes for the SAVE America Act during tonight&#8217;s budget reconciliation vote-a-rama,&#8221; Lee posted on X. &#8220;That means that but for the Zombie Filibuster, the House-passed SAVE America Act would now be on its way to the White House for President Trump&#8217;s signature.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;If they want to filibuster the SAVE America Act, make them speak,&#8221; he added. &#8220;And if we&#8217;re not willing to make them speak and do the hard work, then it is time to nuke the filibuster.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">51 votes for the SAVE America Act during tonight’s budget reconciliation vote-a-rama</p>
<p>That means that but for the Zombie Filibuster, the House-passed SAVE America Act would now be on its way to the White House for President Trump’s signature <a href="https://t.co/3eVv6RpO3C">https://t.co/3eVv6RpO3C</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) <a href="https://x.com/BasedMikeLee/status/2062749611349991652?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 5, 2026</a></p></blockquote>
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<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) had warned before the vote that &#8220;it&#8217;s about the math,&#8221; trying to manage expectations. What the math now shows is that even if the four Republicans voted for the bill, which has overwhelming public support, they still cannot get the bill through.</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">Democrats, predictably, cried foul. Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) insisted &#8220;current safeguards are working&#8221; and dismissed the effort as an attempt to &#8220;ban vote by mail.&#8221; He also complained about transgender-related provisions being added to the amendment during Pride Month, claiming it was &#8220;offensive.&#8221;</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">The American people want voter ID. A majority of the Senate wants voter ID. The only thing in the way is the filibuster.</p>
<p>The argument against killing the filibuster is that if Democrats gain power, they will ram every conceivable change through the Senate, such as increasing the number of justices on the Supreme Court and adding more states to the union that would pad their electoral numbers.</p>

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