Despite a lack of momentum in the Senate, President Donald Trump is not giving up on the SAVE America Act—a bill that would require proof of citizenship and photo identification in federal elections.
On Saturday, Trump demanded the bill be tacked on to separate bills dealing with housing and the extension of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act spy powers.
“THE SAVE AMERICA ACT MUST BE PASSED, NOW,” wrote Trump. “Use the Housing and FISA Bills to get it done! Maryland just had 500,000 Fake Mail-In Ballots revealed. We cannot, as a Country, put up with this any longer!!!”
Trump’s post came after the Maryland State Board of Elections acknowledged an “error by [their] mail-in ballot vendor resulting in some voters receiving the wrong party ballot for the Gubernatorial Primary Election.“
Per the board, more than 500,000 voters have requested mail-in ballots.
Jared DeMarinis, Maryland’s state administrator of elections, has pushed back on Trump’s characterization, telling CBS, “I want to assure the President, voters, and the public that NO Fake Mail-in ballots were distributed.”
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Trump continued in his post, “Voter I.D., and Proof of Citizenship, must be approved, NOW. Crooked Mail-In Voting must be stopped!!! PUT IT ALL IN THE HOUSING AND FISA BILLS.”
The SAVE America Act, as passed by the House of Representatives, does not include restrictions on mail-in ballots. However, Trump has pushed for this provision to be added to the bill.
Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., has introduced an amendment to the bill in the Senate that would restrict most mail-in voting. The SAVE America Act has never come to a vote in the chamber.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has previously pledged to block any bill that includes the SAVE America Act, calling it “a poison pill that will kill any legislation that it is attached to.”
However, Trump’s post was welcomed by some.
“Thank you, President Trump, for continuing to push for the SAVE America Act,” wrote Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, a principal advocate of the bill, on X.
FISA and housing are both issues where Congress has struggled to find consensus.
The House and the Senate have already passed their own bills intended to expand the housing supply.
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., has already placed an amended version of the Senate’s 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act on the House’s tentative schedule for the week of May 18.
With FISA, having failed to come to an agreement on a path forward, Congress has already voted twice in 2026 for short-term extensions of the federal government’s expiring authority to surveil the data of foreigners without warrants—a practice critics say is prone to abuse.
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