Senate Begins Debate On ‘Ill-Fated’ Trump Plan To Avert GOP Midterm Disaster
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Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) was blunt about the odds of the Senate passing Trump's key priority: "It's not going to pass."
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans voted on Tuesday to kick off floor debate on President Donald Trump’s plan to nationalize elections and gut mail-in voting, which he and other Republicans have described as a must-pass bill in order to avert a GOP bloodbath in the November midterm elections.
But the sweeping legislation, titled the SAVE America Act, has no clear path to becoming law thanks to unified Democratic opposition in the Senate and a number of Republican senators who are unwilling to eliminate the filibuster in order to get it to Trump’s desk.
“I’m not prepared to go down this uncertain and ill-defined path that we’re looking at,” Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) said Tuesday.
The Alaska Republican, who believes the bill would make it harder for people to vote in her rural state, added that it “doesn’t have the 60 votes [needed to end debate], so it’s not going to pass.”
The legislation would require voters to prove their citizenship when they register to vote, show ID when they cast their ballots, and eliminate mail-in voting in all but rare instances. Trump has also demanded that Republicans include a ban on transgender athletes from participating in women’s sports.
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