The SAVE America Act is bad news for Republicans

Most political observers would agree: Congress doesn’t really count for anything, anymore. In blind loyalty to Donald Trump, Congress has given up its unique power to declare war, impose tariffs, or control federal spending. Under House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.), and their subservient Republican members, Congress exists only to watch from the sidelines as the entire government is run from the White House — or to occasionally cast a pro-forma vote of approval. 

Need proof? The Senate is now in its second week of marathon debate over one of the worst, most undemocratic, most poorly-crafted, and yes, most stupid pieces of legislation ever considered by Congress — which almost everyone admits has no chance of passage. 

It’s called the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, or SAVE America Act, and, according to Donald Trump, is “one of the most IMPORTANT & CONSEQUENTIAL pieces of legislation in the history of Congress, and America itself.” He has vowed not to endorse any Republican who votes against it. And Trump-whisperer Elon Musk has said that failure to pass it “would be the end of democracy in America.”

All you have to do is read the legislation to know that Musk has it backwards. The truth is that passage of the SAVE America Act, not failure to pass it, would mean the end of democracy in America.

What’s wrong with it? For starters, it is built on a stack of lies that Trump has been telling since 2020: that he, not Joe Biden, actually........

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