Sen. Chris Murphy Exposes The Real Reason Why Trump Wants The SAVE America Act
Republicans and some in the media claim that Trump wants the SAVE America Act passed for voter ID provisions, but Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) discussed the real reason.
No matter how many times Senate Republicans tell Trump that the SAVE America Act is dead and it will never get through the Senate, the president continues to try to force Republicans to try to pass legislation that doesn’t have the votes.
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Trump and Republican supporters of the bill claim that the SAVE America Act is about voter ID, but if the bill were only a voter ID bill, Republicans would not be so opposed to its passage.
The problem is that the bill is much more ominous than voter ID.
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) was on Meet The Press where he was asked by Ryan Nobles, “On the issue of affordability, there was a bipartisan housing bill that passed both chambers of Congress, but it’s currently stalled after President Trump said that he won’t sign the bill until the SAVE Act is passed. One of the elements of the SAVE Act requires voters to show ID. If there was a vote that came to the floor that just required voters to show photo ID, would you support it?”
Murphy debunked the Republican and mainstream media lie that the SAVE America Act is a voter ID bill.
