Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer went off on President Trump for canceling the housing bill signing ceremony until the SAVE America Act is passed.
Schumer lashed out at President Trump over the SAVE America Act.
“The GOP will continue going along with Trump’s all out assault on voting rights with legislation like the SAVE Act,” Schumer said in a rant from the Senate floor.
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Last week, Schumer accidentally made the case for the SAVE America Act during an appearance on MS NOW with host Lawrence O’Donnell.
The Democrat leader said the SAVE America Act will remove 25 million to 30 million people from the voter rolls.
“So here’s a prediction that I think you’re going to like. “The Republican Party will never win another election. I will sadly be the last Republican president. Senate Majority Leader John Thune and the Republican Senate must not let this carnage happen.” That’s Donald Trump’s prediction today that the Republican Party will never win another election. You will be the next Senate Majority Leader. And he’s saying all of that because the Republicans in the Senate are not trying to push through his bill to restrict voting in this country,” Lawrence O’Donnell said to Schumer.
Schumer trashed the SAVE America Act and said it would remove 25 million to 30 million (illegals and ineligible voters) from the voter rolls.
“Well, that’s right. This is this horrible thing, the SAVE Act, one of the worst, most anti-election democracy things that’s ever been proposed. They say it’s, “oh, it’s all about ID, voter ID.” It’s not. They will remove 25 million people off the rolls. Why? Because they’ll require, under this act, which is not going to pass and we’re not going to let it pass. We’ve defeated it in court. I was a lead plaintiff in the decision to do that. We’ve refused to give them the votes that they would want for this. We never will. What it does is it says every state send your election rolls, not to the Justice Department or the voting division, but to the Department of Homeland Security, where Musk and DOGE and Vought have installed an algorithm that determines whether you’re legitimately right to vote or not,” Schumer said.
He continued, “The algorithm is a fix. It’ll knock 20 million people, 30 million people off the rolls, and they don’t tell you. So Mr. Lawrence O’Donnell could show up at the same voting place he showed up every so often, shown his same ID. “Sorry, you’re not on the rolls anymore, sir.” “Well, what do I do about it?” “Next week, go to the Board of Elections.” Trump knows he will lose the election – he said it – because he has created such chaos and because we Democrats have shown what we’re for and the contrast between what we’re for and he’s for, and there’s such a contrast. And so, he’s got to fix it. We’re not letting him do it.”
A federal judge on Wednesday permanently banned Trump from implementing his executive order that required proof of citizenship when they register to vote.
Boston-based US District Judge Denise Casper, an Obama appointee, said the Constitution “does not grant the President any specific powers over elections.”
This is why President Trump has repeatedly called on the Senate to pass the SAVE America Act which would require a valid ID before registering to vote in a federal election, proof of citizenship and no mail-in ballots.
The SAVE America Act is currently stalled in the Senate.
President Trump on Wednesday appeared on Capitol Hill to attend a Senate lunch to discuss the SAVE America Act.
