GingerSnap1776

Potentially… that is the word Senator Dave McCormick used for the SAVE America Act, tucked in at the very end of a list behind defense funding and agriculture supplements, and I want you to sit with that for a minute. McCormick says he fully supports a third reconciliation package, reconciliation 3.0, the kind that only needs 50 votes plus JD Vance and never has to get past the filibuster. Good, and I mean that. He said there is "a real shot we could get something done in the Senate" and that it would let them fund defense, do agriculture supplements "and potentially SAVE America." He says he is willing to stay and work. Then stay and work, and put the thing that matters first instead of last. Here is the reality. The SAVE America Act, proof of citizenship to register and a photo ID to vote, passed the House back in February. It went to the Senate and died on cloture vote after cloture vote while John Thune stood there defending the filibuster like it was carved in stone… and now the same Republicans who would not get it done with a majority just lost that majority. How is this even a thing? You had the House, the Senate and the White House, and the one bill that protects the vote itself sat on a shelf collecting dust while they told you the rules would not allow it. And yet here we are with roughly 50 days before Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries take the gavels, and suddenly there is a path that only needs 50 votes. Where was this path in the spring? Where was it all summer? Make no mistake, once January 3 hits, SAVE America is dead for two years and the next elections run on the same system that just handed Texas numbers nobody can explain with a straight face. I am not interested in "potentially." Potentially is what politicians say when they want credit for caring and an exit when it does not happen. If reconciliation 3.0 moves, SAVE America is not the sweetener at the bottom of the list, it is the reason for the bill. So every Republican senator gets one question between now and Christmas… are you a yes on SAVE America in reconciliation, or are you a no? Not maybe, not after the holidays, not "we will see." Yes or no, on the record, by name. @realDonaldTrump, make SAVE America the price of admission. No reconciliation 3.0 lands on your desk without it, and every senator who stalls it owns what comes next. End stop.