President Donald Trump on Monday urged Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., to keep the Senate in session until lawmakers pass legislation requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote and photo identification at the polls.
The measure, known as the Save America Act, is a priority for Trump as Republicans seek to enact new voting requirements ahead of the midterm elections, explained The Washington Post.
“John Thune should not allow the United States Senate to ‘leave town’ until it passes The Save America Act or, far better still, TERMINATES THE FILIBUSTER,” Trump wrote on social media.
The Senate is scheduled to remain in session for another two weeks before beginning a five-week recess. Democrats have vowed to block the legislation, which would need 60 votes to overcome a filibuster.
Some Republicans have called for eliminating the filibuster or finding another way to advance the bill. Thune has repeatedly said there is not enough support within the Republican conference to make such a change.
Trump warned that Democrats would abolish the filibuster if they regain control of the Senate, though it is unclear whether enough Democratic senators would support doing so.
In a recent opinion piece, for example, Senator John Fetterman, D-Pa., explained that he has changed his mind on the filibuster, saying the rule is “a critical line of defense that prevents President Donald Trump from having a fill-in-the-blank government with new laws, deregulation or procedures of its choosing.” Most Democrats, however, have gone on the record as being willing to change the rule in an effort to ram the ideas of their new radical friends down the throat of the country.
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