{"id":22827,"date":"2026-05-16T16:32:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T16:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-pushes-to-attach-his-save-act-to-must-pass-bipartisan-bills\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T16:32:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T16:32:24","slug":"trump-pushes-to-attach-his-save-act-to-must-pass-bipartisan-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-pushes-to-attach-his-save-act-to-must-pass-bipartisan-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump pushes to attach his SAVE act to must-pass bipartisan bills"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Donald Trump is taking up another strategy to pass his signature SAVE America Act: attaching it to other must-pass bipartisan legislation on housing and government surveillance powers.<\/p>\n

If combined, the SAVE America Act \u2014 which he has called the \u201cNo. 1 priority<\/a>\u201d to pass ahead of the midterms \u2014 would almost certainly undermine the broader bills\u2019 chances of getting through Congress.<\/p>\n

To the president, it may be a risk worth taking.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe cannot, as a Country, put up with this any longer!!!\u201d he wrote on Truth Social Saturday<\/a>. \u201cVoter I.D., and Proof of Citizenship, must be approved, NOW. Crooked Mail-In Voting must be stopped!!! PUT IT ALL IN THE HOUSING AND FISA BILLS.\u201d<\/p>\n

The SAVE America Act would institute new voter ID and proof-of-citizenship requirements for federal elections while also banning transgender women from participating in women’s sports, among other provisions.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, House Republican leaders are planning to call a vote<\/a> next week on the bipartisan housing bill, broadly similar to the White House-endorsed version that passed the Senate in March. And lawmakers have spent months negotiating a long-term reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, a rule that allows the government to collect the communications of foreigners living abroad but often includes Americans\u2019 data.<\/p>\n

Lawmakers are working against a June 12 deadline<\/a> to pass an extension, after approving a temporary six-week reprieve for the program in late April.<\/p>\n

Bipartisan collaboration is necessary for both bills. And Republicans have little hope of securing the necessary votes from Democrats if Trump\u2019s favored legislation enters the fray.<\/p>\n

But the president has long advocated for passing the SAVE America Act, even at the expense of the rest of his party\u2019s congressional agenda. Voters, by contrast, have mixed feelings, according to an April POLITICO Poll<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will guarantee the midterms,\u201d he said in March. \u201cIf you don\u2019t get it, big trouble, my opinion.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump is taking up another strategy to pass his signature SAVE America Act: attaching it to other must-pass bipartisan legislation on housing and government surveillance powers. If combined, the SAVE America Act \u2014 which he has called the \u201cNo. 1 priority\u201d to pass ahead of the midterms \u2014 would almost certainly undermine the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}