Fox News anchor Bret Baier is providing a big update on the Save America Act and what is happening to the bill in Congress.
After speaking with President Donald Trump and other Republicans, Baier revealed that many lawmakers are still pushing hard for the bill to be passed.
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The U.S. House has already passed the Save Act four times. However, it’s been stuck in the U.S. Senate.
Below is a transcript of Baier and Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy providing an update on the situation:
BAIER: “As we told you earlier, while lawmakers are split over the president’s handling of the Iran conflict, both Republicans and Democrats are facing their own internal political problems. Republicans are grappling with a legislative stalemate over the SAVE America Act as Democrats are divided over competing visions for their party’s future. Chief congressional correspondent Chad Pergram is following it all from Capitol Hill.”
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PERGRAM (voice-over): “President Trump direct in his meeting with Senate Republicans.”
Trump: ‘We like everybody really in the room. I don’t like a few people, but that’s okay. I think you know who they are.”
PERGRAM (voice-over): “The president verbally sparred with GOP Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy. The president ditched Cassidy in the Louisiana primary. Cassidy then voted to hamstring the president on Iran.”
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CASSIDY: “The president didn’t want to hear my question, interrupted me. I didn’t care to be interrupted. (…) And I’m not going to be bullied when I’m trying to get answers for the American people. So — so it escalated from there.”
PERGRAM (voice-over): “The president demanded the Republicans kill the filibuster to pass the SAVE America Act, but that remains stalled.”
TUBERVILLE: “I don’t know whether it moved him. If they don’t change their vote after that talk, then we won’t be able to get to them.”
PERGRAM (voice-over): “When pressed about the signing of the bipartisan housing bill, the president pivoted to last night’s New York Democratic primary.”
Trump: “The people that they are pushing are communists, and this country is not going to have communists.”
PERGRAM (voice-over): “Democratic socialists ran the table.”
CHEVALIER: “What we have delivered here today is a clear mandate.”
PERGRAM (voice-over): “Republicans say Democratic socialists could alarm mainstream voters.”
Johnson: “There are many Mamdanis popping up all around the country.”
PERGRAM (voice-over): “House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries downplayed the primary results.”
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Jeffries: “I think there are two current members of the DSA that are part of the House Democratic Caucus out of 215. That number may grow to four.”
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Despite the push and massive support from most Americans, the U.S. Senate left town and is currently on August recess.
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Republican lawmakers had stated that they would put forth endless effort to implement the election reforms that Trump has suggested the party must implement in order to win the midterm elections.
Rather, they left with little more than a showy pre-dawn procedural vote on a weakened version of the bill that they knew would fail.
Eventually, even the most ardent supporters of the election measure acknowledged what had always been obvious: Simply put, there wasn’t enough Republican support to pass the stringent voter identification laws.
Senators were keen to give up the pointless endeavor in order to return home to their states and run for reelection because the party’s majority was in jeopardy.
“We are not in a position right now where we have the wherewithal to pass it right now,” Senator Mike Lee, Republican of Utah and one of the most forceful proponents of the legislation, said on Friday night.
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The president’s proposed measure would require Americans to show proof of citizenship to register to vote, impose a nationwide voter identification requirement and severely limit voting by mail.
That legislation, which the president has called the SAVE America Act, has neither the majority it would need to pass nor the 60 votes needed to overcome a Democratic filibuster.
Trump commanded the Senate to cancel its planned five-week recess if it did not pass the measure.
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