Republican House Should Staple SAVE America Act to Everything it Sends the GOP Senate

When Republicans and conservatives gather these days, one topic quickly and predictably arises: Why can’t the GOP Senate pass the SAVE America Act?

This measure has been President Donald J. Trump’s chief domestic-policy objective for 2026. He threatened not to sign any other bill until Congress placed this measure on the Resolute Desk. Trump had to step away from that statement, in order to end Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security and the odious, Democrat-led impoverishment of TSA agents, ICE personnel, and Border Patrol staffers.

To advance SAVE, Republican senators launched what seemed like a half-hearted “standing filibuster.” This was meant to force Democrats to explain on the Senate floor why they so bitterly oppose photo ID at the polls, proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote, clean voter rolls, and a rollback of the COVID-era mass-mail-in ballots and other “temporary” procedures that corrupt Democrats converted into permanent electoral practices.

In contrast, SAVE’s planks are popular across the political spectrum. Indeed, photo ID enjoys 71% support—among Democrats!

As Democrat senators who stood up and defended their indefensible positions began to devolve into self-humiliation, the ever-accommodating Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., sent everyone home for a two-week Easter hiatus. This eased Republican pressure on Democrats and gave the latter a respite to regroup.

Senator John Kennedy, R-La., deserves abundant credit for subsequently trying to attach SAVE language to Thune’s unforgivably desiccated reconciliation bill to pay TSA and Border Patrol personnel. Alas, on April 23, three GOP traitors joined Democrats and sabotaged Kennedy’s effort. Kentucky’s Mitch McConnell, Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski, and North Carolina’s Thom Tillis are not team players. They should hide their heads in shame.

Susan Collins, R-Maine, voted with them. However, conservatives let her go her own way, given her very liberal state and uncertain re-election prospects. Graham Platner, her presumptive Democrat opponent, who previously described himself as a “communist,” farms oysters, and sported a Nazi Totenkopf tattoo. This death’s head symbol was the insignia for the SS murderers who operated the gas chambers and crematoria in Adolf Hitler’s extermination camps. For real.

With the Republican Senate in maddening disarray, the GOP House should reinvigorate this vital battle with elegant simplicity:

Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., should staple the SAVE America Act to each single piece of legislation that the House sends the Senate. From National Bacon Month to the farm bill, a burgeoning housing-affordability package, and the Pentagon budget, the House should push the Senate to cope with SAVE every time it considers anything transmitted from the lower chamber. 

For Democrats, this will become a time for choosing: Swallow hard and accept SAVE now, rather than combat it, in one legislative battle after another.

Or Democrats can propose an amendment to pry the SAVE language out of each and every House-passed bill that the Senate considers. GOP Senators should make Democrats debate all such deletion amendments. Democrats then would expose themselves, on camera, opposing photo ID, slamming proof of citizenship, rejecting accurate voter rolls, embracing out-of-control mass mail-in ballots, and defending door-to-door ballot hustling. Republicans would compel Senate Democrats to reject these well-regarded GOP reforms—again and again and again and again and again. 

Voters soon would wonder: “Why are Democrats so gung-ho about keeping our elections easy to steal?” This would include the Democrats’ relentless intransigence about election-integrity norms that are boringly common worldwide. The same photo ID to vote that Democrats call racist in America is widespread throughout Africa. Go figure.

Watching Democrats pit themselves against these policies should focus voters’ attention on the Donkey Party’s never-ending treachery. With any luck, they will send pro-election-theft Democrats packing, come November.

And, before then, if the House keeps hammering and Senate Republicans steady themselves and do their jobs, they finally will send the SAVE America Act to its rightful destination: immediately below President Trump’s big, beautiful signature pen.

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