How Speaker Mike Johnson Will Save the SAVE America Act

Speaker Mike Johnson has a plan to rescue the SAVE America Act, and it runs through budget reconciliation rather than the sixty votes regular order would require.

Supporters argue the bill is overdue. Its backers say that while the legislation would shore up our nation's election integrity, opponents have buried it under procedural objections and partisan delay. The president has made the case in his own blunt terms, telling supporters that requiring proof of citizenship to vote is simple common sense. 'The only reason you wouldn't want to do it is because you want to cheat,' Trump said of the measure.

Johnson's allies contend that attaching the bill to a reconciliation package would let it clear the Senate with a simple majority, sidestepping the filibuster that has kept it stalled. Critics call the maneuver an end run around the ordinary legislative process.