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10 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: October 2, 2026.
Democrats voted down both Republican-led measures, calling one a 'permission slip for corruption' because it included voter ID rules, five weeks before the midterm elections.
The citizenship documentation requirement sailed through the House but cannot overcome a Democratic filibuster — and election officials warn it would disenfranchise millions before the 2026 midterms.
The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act would require in-person documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote and end mail-in ballots — but faces a 60-vote Senate threshold that Republican leadership says it cannot clear.
The Republican-backed bill requiring proof of citizenship to register and photo ID to vote is stalled in the Senate at 51 votes — short of the 60 needed — setting up a defining clash over American democracy ahead of the 2026 midterms.
WatchThe president rebuffed a Senate Republican compromise that would have reopened the Department of Homeland Security, insisting no deal moves forward without passage of his voter ID legislation — extending a shutdown now in its seventh week.
The president declared no funding agreement should be reached until the SAVE Act requiring proof of citizenship for voter registration clears the Senate — a demand that Democrats say is a poison pill designed to torpedo talks.
Republicans launched days of around-the-clock Senate floor speeches on the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, which would require documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to register and photo ID to cast any ballot, though the bill remains likely to fail a 60-vote filibuster threshold.
Senator Mike Lee orchestrated a rare Senate floor takeover to force consideration of legislation that would require documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote in all federal elections — a bill supporters call essential election security and critics call the most far-reaching voter suppression measure in decades.
Facing a competitive primary and eyeing Trump's endorsement, Sen. John Cornyn says he'll support whatever Senate rule changes are needed to pass the SAVE America Act.
SAVE America Act would require photo ID and proof of citizenship to vote.