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Senators head for the exits without meeting Trump’s demands for voting bill
AP ^ | Aug 8 | By LISA MASCARO

Posted on 08/08/2026 10:38:45 AM PDT by RandFan

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senators headed for the exits in the predawn hours Saturday, ending for now a crushing standoff over President Donald Trump’s demands that they stay in session to pass a strict proof-of-citizenship voting bill before the summer recess.

While they wrapped up many key priorities in the overnight votes, advancing Trump’s SAVE America Act was not among them.

Instead, Republican senators who had brought the chamber to a standstill spoke to Trump late in the evening about an alternative plan: They would try again to approve elements of the voting bill as part of a broader GOP budget package to fund the Iran war and replenish the Pentagon when they return to work in September.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: britishagitator; fruktrolls; onvacation; republicans; senate; summer; thoon; trump

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This is incredible. Voter ID is nothing unusual in many parts of the world 🤡 it's totally non-controversial yet the GOP senate couldn't get it done.

The plan B is something in September when they return.

Does this satisfy you?

1 posted on 08/08/2026 10:38:45 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

Thune and his toadies win again.


2 posted on 08/08/2026 10:41:30 AM PDT by donozark (Trump isn't a fascist. America's trains still do not run on time.)
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To: RandFan

I now have a livid hatred for all of Congress. Come and kill me you punks. I don’t want to live under YOUR slavery system.


3 posted on 08/08/2026 10:44:10 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: RandFan

It is obvious that certain Senators WANT NON-CITIZENS TO VOTE.
Why?


4 posted on 08/08/2026 10:45:13 AM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: Chewbarkah

Electability and MONEY!!!!!!


5 posted on 08/08/2026 10:47:47 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: Chewbarkah

It’s easy. There are many like cocaine Mitch that are owned by the CCP and drug cartels.


6 posted on 08/08/2026 10:48:13 AM PDT by ChuckHam
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To: RandFan

Their time back home should be made unbearably uncomfortable


7 posted on 08/08/2026 10:48:13 AM PDT by bigbob (We are all Charlie Kirk now)
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To: RandFan
Congress doing what they do best.

Disappoint!

8 posted on 08/08/2026 10:51:11 AM PDT by sjmjax
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The plan B is something in September when they return.

Does this satisfy you?

NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. NO.

9 posted on 08/08/2026 10:53:24 AM PDT by null and void (Trump isn't a pussycat, but he does have nine lives!)
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To: RandFan
NO MORE 2+ term INCUMBENTS for me.
Yeah, yeah, refusing to vote for them means someone else may get in. I am TIRED OF SETTLING FOR THE LESSER OF TWO EVILS. Paxton gets 1 term. If he does right by us, I'll vote for a 2nd, but NOT a third.
10 posted on 08/08/2026 10:53:43 AM PDT by Semper Vigilantis (If Heaven ain't a lot like Texas, I'd just as soon stay home.)
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To: RandFan

it absolutely does NOT satisfy me, or the needs of the Republic

often the simplest explanation is the closest to correct

how much are the handful of RINO senators getting paid to enable the DemoNaziCommie power-grabbing agenda?

follow the money.


11 posted on 08/08/2026 10:54:31 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Chewbarkah

They want Trump to fail. Its that easy.


12 posted on 08/08/2026 10:55:25 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: RandFan

Republicans are useless


13 posted on 08/08/2026 10:56:53 AM PDT by wny
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The plan B is something in September when they return. Does this satisfy you?

YES! I do NOT want SAVE now! It would dissipate the move afoot for the real plan to unfold. In hind sight, I say SAVE was always doomed.

Even if they passed it this afternoon, it'd be useless: It might fix voter rolls that have already selected many tainted candidates for the midterms. It would get mired in the courts for any possible outcome well after November.

So, I'm happy with this non-outcome of not getting SAVE.

Roll out the next step!

We should brace ourselves for the unprecedented EVER, declaration of a National Emergency with respect to Elections.

Nobody should really be surprised, if following the series of Trump EO's: 13848, 14248 and 14399.

14 posted on 08/08/2026 10:57:35 AM PDT by C210N
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If POTUS fails, the USA fails!


15 posted on 08/08/2026 10:58:47 AM PDT by Taxman (We will never be a truly free people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS.)
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To: wny

EXCUSE ME !!!!!! HOW MANY DEMOCRATS SUPPORT THE SAVE ACT?

WHY ARE THEY BEING GIVEN A PASS?


16 posted on 08/08/2026 11:00:46 AM PDT by Taxman (We will never be a truly free people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS.)
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To: RandFan
Ah, the arrogance of power.

Please consider, my good FRiends, this verbatim quote from a i online...

The SAVE America Act is broadly popular with U.S. voters, with multiple polls indicating 71% to 85% support for its core provisions among registered voters. A February 2026 Harvard CAPS/Harris poll found 71% of registered voters support the bill, including 91% of Republicans, 69% of independents, and 50% of Democrats.

What I don't get is that SUPPORT for the SAVE act would make GREAT election ads and sniveling away without further voting takes away this chance to connect with voters on an emotional issue, n'est ce pas?

17 posted on 08/08/2026 11:01:46 AM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never...in nothing, great or small...Winston ChurchIill)
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Their time back home should be made unbearably uncomfortable

What did mad Maxine say?

[paraphrased] 'Let's make sure we show up wherever we have to show up. And if you see anybody from that Senate in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. And you tell them they're not welcome anymore, anywhere.'

No SAVE, No vote from me!

18 posted on 08/08/2026 11:02:19 AM PDT by null and void (Trump isn't a pussycat, but he does have nine lives!)
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To: RandFan

The corruption is bone-deep. It’s a big club and you ain’t in it. Shut up and pay your taxes...or else. Too much power in too few hands, and so it is, as the Founding Fathers warned. A Republic if you can keep it. It will only endure if its citizens were virtuous and moral...its been in decay for a while, and now Congress is flagrant...no shame and why should they have any, real or faked? No one is arrested, no one is prosecuted, no one goes to jail or loses their pension. It’s become a criminal class, and we are their subjects. Troubles a brewing....


19 posted on 08/08/2026 11:03:18 AM PDT by john drake (Lucius Accius-Roman,170 BC - "oderint dum metuant" translated "Let them hate so long as they fear")
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To: RandFan

Shocked face.....😴😴😴😴. And republicrats wonder how socialists are becoming a thing. Fooking idjits need to wake up. 😠


20 posted on 08/08/2026 11:04:35 AM PDT by rktman (Patriotism not 'hateriotism' !. Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🇺🇸)
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