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Senate GOP Should Know Better Than To Ignore Trump’s Political Instincts On The SAVE Act

Senate Republicans would do well by the country and themselves to heed Trump’s political instincts on this one. 

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Between military adventurism in Iran and some backsliding on life issues, some in MAGA land have begun to question President Donald Trump’s legendary political instincts. 

But Trump’s sixth sense for the Swamp and its slimy creatures was as razor-sharp as ever Wednesday when he canceled a ceremony and signing of the uniparty’s so-called affordable housing bill. He then threatened that he wouldn’t sign the hefty measure until the GOP-controlled Senate passes a critical voter verification package long languishing in the Upper House. 

“Today’s Housing News Conference and Signing is hereby cancelled until such time as we pass the desperately needed SAVE AMERICA ACT, which I consider to be a National Emergency,” the president wrote on Truth Social. 

Also referred to as the SAVE (Safeguard American Voter Eligibility) Act, the bill would require documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in federal elections and photo ID to cast a ballot in them. 

Democrats hate it because laws that make it harder to cheat make it harder for the left to win elections. So the Senate minority have stood united in blocking the reform package. Republicans, which — unbeknownst to them  — control the Senate, have treated the Democrats’ filibuster unity and the work it would take to break it as a kind of kryptonite. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., and his leadership team have thrown up their arms and surrendered, saying they don’t have the numbers in the GOP conference to do anything more than the pathetic debate theater we saw in March. 

Trump, in a word, has had it. 

The president gave Senate Republicans a tongue-lashing at a heated closed-door lunch Wednesday. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., was there. He tells The Federalist that Trump expressed his “disappointment” about the Senate’s passage of a congressional resolution demanding the commander-in-chief withdraw America’s armed forces from Iran — thanks to four Republicans senators. Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., said Trump was as “mad as a........

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