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Trump, GOP Sens Lash Out at Thune for Placing Six-Week Recess Over SAVE America Act

Several prominent Senate Republicans have joined President Donald Trump in pressuring Senate Majority Leader John Thune to cancel the Senate’s August recess to pass the SAVE America Act, the voter-integrity legislation championed by the president.

The legislation aims to prevent noncitizens from voting.

As of Monday morning, Sens. Ashley Moody, R-Fla., Rick Scott, R-Fla., Mike Lee, R-Utah, Jim Banks, R-Ind., John Kennedy, R-La., and Ron Johnson, R-Wis., have come out in favor of passing the legislation before recess.

Banks stated that after New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill announced that more than 6,600 noncitizens had been accidentally registered to vote, there has been a new push among Republicans to enact the legislation.

Last week, Sherrill blamed a “software error” in her state’s Motor Vehicle Commission computer system for noncitizens being added to the voter rolls. However, the company that handles the software denied the error, claiming the state government was responsible for voter registration.

Banks’ colleagues echoed........

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