Republicans, Trump run into Senate roadblock on voter ID bill
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Congressional Republicans, President Donald Trump and their shared base of support want to see voter ID legislation become law, but the last barrier is the Senate, where political reality has turned the notion into a pipe dream.
The GOP’s legislative push to codify more requirements and restrictions surrounding voter registration nearly derailed Congress’ attempt to end the latest partial government shutdown on Tuesday.
In an unlikely turn of events, like Senate Democrats’ push to save expiring Obamacare subsidies’ during the last funding battle, House Republicans’ desire to attach election integrity legislation, dubbed the SAVE America Act, to the Trump-backed package this week bolted the issue back into the zeitgeist.
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Trump, who encouraged House Republicans to stand down from their do-or-die demands, renewed his call to pass voter ID legislation while signing the funding package into law on Tuesday.
"We should have voter ID, by the way," Trump said. "We should have a lot of the things that I think everybody wants to see. Who would not want voter ID? Only somebody that wants to cheat."
While several Senate Republicans support what the bill could accomplish, they acknowledge the legislation would die on the floor without a handful of Senate Democrats, who nearly unanimously despise the move.
"Democrats want to make it easy to cheat," Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., told Fox News Digital. "They don't want to do anything to secure elections."
The issue at hand, as has often been the case during Trump’s second term, is the 60-vote filibuster. The president has called on Senate Republicans to eviscerate it several times throughout the last year as the precarious threshold has time and again impeded his agenda.
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Some Senate Republicans, including Johnson, are mulling turning to the precursor to the modern filibuster: the talking, or standing, filibuster.
The modern filibuster is less strenuous, literally, than the standing filibuster. While today’s standard requires that senators hit at least 60 votes, the standing filibuster demanded that lawmakers debate on the floor, consuming one of the Senate’s most valuable commodities: time.
"The only way that's going to get passed is if we do a talking filibuster, or we end the filibuster," Johnson said.
There’s little appetite among Senate Republicans to nuke the filibuster, given that it could play right into the desires of Senate Democrats, who have …
Why resist verification?
Congressional Republicans, President Donald Trump and their shared base of support want to see voter ID legislation become law, but the last barrier is the Senate, where political reality has turned the notion into a pipe dream.
The GOP’s legislative push to codify more requirements and restrictions surrounding voter registration nearly derailed Congress’ attempt to end the latest partial government shutdown on Tuesday.
In an unlikely turn of events, like Senate Democrats’ push to save expiring Obamacare subsidies’ during the last funding battle, House Republicans’ desire to attach election integrity legislation, dubbed the SAVE America Act, to the Trump-backed package this week bolted the issue back into the zeitgeist.
SCHUMER NUKES GOP PUSH FOR 'JIM CROW-ERA' VOTER ID LAWS IN TRUMP-BACKED SHUTDOWN PACKAGE
Trump, who encouraged House Republicans to stand down from their do-or-die demands, renewed his call to pass voter ID legislation while signing the funding package into law on Tuesday.
"We should have voter ID, by the way," Trump said. "We should have a lot of the things that I think everybody wants to see. Who would not want voter ID? Only somebody that wants to cheat."
While several Senate Republicans support what the bill could accomplish, they acknowledge the legislation would die on the floor without a handful of Senate Democrats, who nearly unanimously despise the move.
"Democrats want to make it easy to cheat," Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., told Fox News Digital. "They don't want to do anything to secure elections."
The issue at hand, as has often been the case during Trump’s second term, is the 60-vote filibuster. The president has called on Senate Republicans to eviscerate it several times throughout the last year as the precarious threshold has time and again impeded his agenda.
THUNE REJECTS TRUMP'S CALL TO NATIONALIZE ELECTIONS, WARNS DEMS TRIED THE SAME
Some Senate Republicans, including Johnson, are mulling turning to the precursor to the modern filibuster: the talking, or standing, filibuster.
The modern filibuster is less strenuous, literally, than the standing filibuster. While today’s standard requires that senators hit at least 60 votes, the standing filibuster demanded that lawmakers debate on the floor, consuming one of the Senate’s most valuable commodities: time.
"The only way that's going to get passed is if we do a talking filibuster, or we end the filibuster," Johnson said.
There’s little appetite among Senate Republicans to nuke the filibuster, given that it could play right into the desires of Senate Democrats, who have …
Republicans, Trump run into Senate roadblock on voter ID bill
Why resist verification?
Congressional Republicans, President Donald Trump and their shared base of support want to see voter ID legislation become law, but the last barrier is the Senate, where political reality has turned the notion into a pipe dream.
The GOP’s legislative push to codify more requirements and restrictions surrounding voter registration nearly derailed Congress’ attempt to end the latest partial government shutdown on Tuesday.
In an unlikely turn of events, like Senate Democrats’ push to save expiring Obamacare subsidies’ during the last funding battle, House Republicans’ desire to attach election integrity legislation, dubbed the SAVE America Act, to the Trump-backed package this week bolted the issue back into the zeitgeist.
SCHUMER NUKES GOP PUSH FOR 'JIM CROW-ERA' VOTER ID LAWS IN TRUMP-BACKED SHUTDOWN PACKAGE
Trump, who encouraged House Republicans to stand down from their do-or-die demands, renewed his call to pass voter ID legislation while signing the funding package into law on Tuesday.
"We should have voter ID, by the way," Trump said. "We should have a lot of the things that I think everybody wants to see. Who would not want voter ID? Only somebody that wants to cheat."
While several Senate Republicans support what the bill could accomplish, they acknowledge the legislation would die on the floor without a handful of Senate Democrats, who nearly unanimously despise the move.
"Democrats want to make it easy to cheat," Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., told Fox News Digital. "They don't want to do anything to secure elections."
The issue at hand, as has often been the case during Trump’s second term, is the 60-vote filibuster. The president has called on Senate Republicans to eviscerate it several times throughout the last year as the precarious threshold has time and again impeded his agenda.
THUNE REJECTS TRUMP'S CALL TO NATIONALIZE ELECTIONS, WARNS DEMS TRIED THE SAME
Some Senate Republicans, including Johnson, are mulling turning to the precursor to the modern filibuster: the talking, or standing, filibuster.
The modern filibuster is less strenuous, literally, than the standing filibuster. While today’s standard requires that senators hit at least 60 votes, the standing filibuster demanded that lawmakers debate on the floor, consuming one of the Senate’s most valuable commodities: time.
"The only way that's going to get passed is if we do a talking filibuster, or we end the filibuster," Johnson said.
There’s little appetite among Senate Republicans to nuke the filibuster, given that it could play right into the desires of Senate Democrats, who have …
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