Yesterday, the Senate began debating the SAVE America Act, legislation that threatens to block millions of eligible American citizens from voting. Similar to the SAVE Act, the SAVE America Act would require Americans to show proof of their citizenship, chiefly a passport or birth certificate, in person to register to vote or make registration updates for address and name changes.
The issue is that half of American citizens—146 million Americans—don’t have a passport, and as many as 69 million women who have married and taken their spouse’s name don’t have a birth certificate that matches their legal name. And those REAL IDs so many people lined up to get, and paid for, wouldn’t cut it in many cases .
This new version, the SAVE America Act, is even more extreme because it would require states to hand over their entire list of registered voters to the Department of Homeland Security and give the DHS secretary the power to tell states who to purge. Now, they want to further amend the bill to ban mail-in voting for nearly all Americans.
Far right politicians pushing the SAVE Act have tried to trick Americans into thinking the legislation is reasonable by calling it a “voter ID” bill. But the SAVE Act goes far beyond requiring a driver’s license.
Let’s be clear: The SAVE America Act has never been about improving election integrity. It’s always been about silencing Americans and manipulating election outcomes. But Trump is finally saying that part out loud. Just in the past few weeks, President Trump has said the SAVE Act would “guarantee the midterms” and ensure Republicans won’t lose an election for 50 years.
In 250 years of American history, Congress has never passed legislation that would restrict U.S. citizens’ right to vote. The SAVE America Act would be the first.
In solidarity,
Gréta Bedekovics Director of Democracy Center for American Progress
STARTING SOON at 3 p.m.: Expert briefing on the U.S. strike on an Iranian school
In the first hours of the war in Iran, a U.S. airstrike hit an elementary school, killing 168 civilians, most of whom were children. This incident occurred as Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth vowed the war would be prosecuted with “no stupid rules of engagement,” after slashing civilian harm mitigation efforts at the Pentagon.
Join an online discussion on this tragedy and its implications for the U.S. military and the future of warfare today at 3 p.m. ET:
President Trump’s attacks on Iran have already cost taxpayers billions of dollars and U.S. military service members and Iranian civilians their lives. Retired Major General Randy Manner explains the only way out is through de-escalation:
Manufacturing job losses due to the Trump administration’s reckless tariff agenda have cost the equivalent of 2,800 average-size factories
It’s been nearly one year since President Trump’s so-called “Liberation Day,” when he announced dozens of country-specific tariffs that have raised prices for both consumers and businesses, unleashed chaos on the U.S. economy, and undermined our relationships abroad.
Trump has argued that his unprecedented tariff agenda—which has raised the country’s effective tariff rate to levels not seen in decades—would result in U.S. manufacturing “roaring back.” The reality is that the cumulative loss in manufacturing jobs since April 2025 is equivalent to the closure of 2,800 average-size factories nationwide.
What—if anything—has been achieved from the Trump administration’s tariffs other than higher prices for American consumers, blue-collar job losses, broken trust abroad, and surging small-business bankruptcies? The answer: not much.
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