BREAKING: Senate Votes 48-50 to Reject SAVE America Act – FOUR Republicans Join the Democrats
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The Senate on Thursday evening rejected the SAVE America Act as part of the reconciliation package.
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Platner says claims in New York Times article of physical misconduct and offensive remarks ‘politically motivated’Graham Platner, a Democratic candidate for the US Senate, has rejected an explosive new report about his treatment of women, insisting that allegations of abusive behavior are “politically motivated”.Platner, a progressive running for election in Maine, was responding to a New York Times article published on Thursday that included an interview with a Republican operative who accused him of womanizing, physical misconduct and making troubling comments about rape. Continue reading...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent battled it out with Democratic Rep. Linda Sanchez of California during a hearing of the House Ways and Means Committee Thursday.Sanchez accused Bessent of being complicit with what she called corruption of the Trump administration when they entered a shouting match at the end of her comments.'The congresswoman is slanderous. She has nothing but the unsubstantiated opinions, and I will not stand for that!' She asked him about whether he had reviewed the decision to give the president's family complete immunity from being audited by the Internal Revenue Service."Why are you allowing President Trump and his family to have complete immunity from being audited?” Sanchez asked. "Since you're a lawyer, you will understand that the U.S. Treasury and the IRS are represented by the Justice Department and the acting attorney general," Bessent responded.Sanchez interrupted and accused Bessent of refusing to answer questions about the immunity order."I'm curious to know who counts as Trump's ‘family’ for the purposes of this immunity. Is it his children, his in-laws, his grandchildren, his second or third cousin, his great-great-grandchildren? Do you know the answer to that question, Mr. Secretary?" she asked. "Again, I imagine you have the Justice Department phone number. I suggest you call them," Bessent responded. "I'm not the one that runs the Department of the Treasury or that oversees what is happening with this immunity that has been granted," Sanchez fired back."I'm not the one either," Bessent said. "We follow the instructions of our lawyers, and we obey the law.""I hope that you're proud of your performance today," Sanchez said."Well, I hope you get some social media clips!" Bessent said to Sanchez."I think it's pretty safe to say that this is probably the most corrupt Treasury Department in our nation's history!" Sanchez said."I am going to have to take exception to that. That is a slanderous statement!" Bessent hollered."While you dance around questions to protect Trump, Americans are suffering in Trump's spiraling economy. Inflation is now raising faster than average hourly wages, gas prices are at an all-time high with the war in Iran," Sanchez said."Nah!" Bessent interjected."The price of groceries has risen 3.2% over the past years, and prices on most goods have gone up because of Trump's tariffs," she continued. "So I don't see how you can call that anything other than a failure of the most corrupt Treasury Department in history."Bessent was given the chance to respond after Sanchez's time was over."The congresswoman is slanderous. She has nothing but the unsubstantiated opinions, and I will not stand for that!" Bessent hollered.RELATED: Scott Bessent slaps down Newsom at Davos: 'He's here with his billionaire sugar daddy, Alex Soros' "There is nothing corrupt. We move at the highest levels, and just because she cannot get the answer she wants, if she would like to give me facts — she seems ... short on facts, long on hot air. And I will not stand for that," he added."It's a disgrace to make a remark like that," Bessent concluded.The IRS audit immunity order was announced by the Justice Department as a part of the $20 billion lawsuit from the president over the leak of his IRS documents. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!
A House Republican is drafting legislation to try to bypass Senate rules and advance President Donald Trump’s push to require enhanced voter identification. The bill would cost taxpayers $250 million over five years.According to Politico, U.S. Rep. Julie Fedorchak (R-ND) is working on the “SAVE America Through REAL ID Act,” which would provide funds for lower-income voters to obtain a REAL ID, while encouraging states to require a REAL ID to vote.“In order to address that one issue, we’ve created this grant program for states to use to help people who meet the income qualifications … to be able to get a free REAL ID,” Fedorchak told Politico. Fedorchak hopes the $250 million price tag will make the legislation eligible to pass in the Senate under the reconciliation process, which requires only a simple majority — thus potentially bypassing the need for any Democratic votes.Fedorchak’s bill would be “an alternative to the proof-of-citizenship and voter-ID mandates in the original SAVE America Act that would likely be excluded from a party-line bill by the Senate parliamentarian,” Politico reports.Politico’s Meredith Lee Hill reported that House GOP leaders were “scrambling to find ways to squeeze pieces of the SAVE America Act into their next party-line bill.” That would include “using funding carrots instead of policy mandates to clear the Senate parliamentarian.”Despite repeated pressure from President Trump, as recently as Thursday afternoon, the SAVE America Act has stalled in the Senate. Trump wants that legislation to require all voters to show voter ID and proof of citizenship, while sharply narrowing the use of mail-in ballots. Trump is also pressing for the bill to ban “men in women’s sports,” and “transgender mutilization [sic] surgery for our children.”Back in February the president vowed the SAVE America Act would pass into law, “one way or another.” Critics see the controversial bill as voter suppression legislation.Democrats oppose the bill in part because it requires a passport or birth certificate to register to vote — something tens of millions of Americans do not currently have, according to voting rights groups. It also narrows generally accepted forms of photo ID to vote.Others oppose it because it requires states to run their voter rolls through federal immigration databases, which reportedly have a high error rate. Critics also say that it creates a large unfunded administrative burden for states.In April, Trump told Republicans that enacting the SAVE Act would “guarantee the midterms” — while claiming that was not the reason he was pushing the bill. “I don’t think you can politically exist if you’re not going to do voter ID and these things.”
Mail-in ballots and security measures contribute to counting delays in California's close contests, an election expert says, and last-minute voters in the governor's race may slow things down further.
Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York highlighted the internal tension within the Democratic Party amid Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner‘s sexting scandal. “Clearly, Democratic senators are terrified that there is going to be more to come out,” York said Thursday on Fox News’s America Reports. “I think it’s important to point out right now […]
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) said on Thursday he will not vote to confirm acting Attorney General Todd Blanche as the permanent head of the Department of Justice. The admission is notable, considering Fetterman sometimes votes in favor of Trump nominees during the Senate confirmation process. Last year, he was the sole Democrat to back the […]
A Democratic candidate for attorney general in Iowa reposted comparisons of antifa to the American troops who fought in D-Day, screenshots from his personal X account show. […]
Three GOP senators join Democrats as dispute over proposed payouts exposes party divisionsUS politics live – latest updatesSenate Republicans on Thursday narrowly scuttled an attempt by Democrats to stop Donald Trump from creating a $1.8bn fund to pay his allies, even as signs emerged that dissent over the proposal was spreading inside the US president’s own party.Democratic Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer had proposed inserting language barring the payouts into Republican-backed legislation to fund Trump’s mass deportation campaign through the duration of his term. Continue reading...
