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The SAVE Act Comes for Everything by David Dayen
Donald Trump has found a way to soothe Democratic fears that Republicans in Congress will continue to savage the poor, funnel money to the rich, and make the nation safe for corporate dominion. He’s effectively shut down Congress until it passes an unpassable bill.
Trump is demanding that the SAVE America Act—a voter suppression bill he thinks will save his hide in the midterms—reach his desk first before he’ll take care of any other congressional business. First it was Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the warrantless spying program that the intelligence hawks were poised to ram through again until Trump said SAVE had to be attached. Then a signing ceremony for the ROAD to Housing Act, a bipartisan agreement that passed with over 90 percent of Congress in both chambers, was abruptly canceled Wednesday because Trump asked for SAVE first. (That will likely become law anyway, as I’ll explain.)
Now this controlled burn is going to set fire to the last chance for Republicans to do anything else meaningful before the midterms. The SAVE Act has poisoned this process entirely, and there’s really no path for it to happen.
Remarkably enough, there are other potentially worthy bipartisan deals under discussion, for a $35 monthly co-pay for all insulin prescriptions and for child online safety rules, to name two. None of them will get done as long as this SAVE thing hangs over the proceedings.
Why is Trump destroying a Republican Congress’s ability to affirm his priorities? First, he really does think he can rig the elections in his favor and avoid accountability. But second and perhaps more important, Trump and his loyal sentry Russ Vought are running the government to their satisfaction without congressional input, defying legislative spending prerogatives and unilaterally budgeting government operations. So who cares if Congress can’t pass a law? Laws are not being followed anyway. The core of the constitutional system, Congress’s control of federal spending, has been effectively suspended.
Trump is demanding that the SAVE America Act—a voter suppression bill he thinks will save his hide in the midterms—reach his desk first before he’ll take care of any other congressional business. First it was Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the warrantless spying program that the intelligence hawks were poised to ram through again until Trump said SAVE had to be attached. Then a signing ceremony for the ROAD to Housing Act, a bipartisan agreement that passed with over 90 percent of Congress in both chambers, was abruptly canceled Wednesday because Trump asked for SAVE first. (That will likely become law anyway, as I’ll explain.)
Now this controlled burn is going to set fire to the last chance for Republicans to do anything else meaningful before the midterms. The SAVE Act has poisoned this process entirely, and there’s really no path for it to happen.
Remarkably enough, there are other potentially worthy bipartisan deals under discussion, for a $35 monthly co-pay for all insulin prescriptions and for child online safety rules, to name two. None of them will get done as long as this SAVE thing hangs over the proceedings.
Why is Trump destroying a Republican Congress’s ability to affirm his priorities? First, he really does think he can rig the elections in his favor and avoid accountability. But second and perhaps more important, Trump and his loyal sentry Russ Vought are running the government to their satisfaction without congressional input, defying legislative spending prerogatives and unilaterally budgeting government operations. So who cares if Congress can’t pass a law? Laws are not being followed anyway. The core of the constitutional system, Congress’s control of federal spending, has been effectively suspended.
https://prospect.org/2026/06/25/trump-save-act-housing-bill-congress-republicans/
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The RIGHT voters are WHITE voters?
Every American has the right to run!
Every American has the right to run!
