President Trump on Saturday renewed his call to "terminate" the filibuster to ensure the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act passes through the Senate as it remains in limbo in the upper chamber.
Not passing the Republican-led bill would lead to "the worst results for a political party in the HISTORY of the United States Senate," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "An Unrecoverable Death Wish!!! Likewise, the FILIBUSTER - TERMINATE IT NOW!!!"
The president has made the SAVE America Act his top legislative priority. The bill would require all voters to show photo ID, request those registering to vote to show proof of citizenship and to require all ballots be counted within 36 hours of Election Day.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) previously dismissed the notion of forcing Democrats to use a talking filibuster to oppose the SAVE America Act, a move that Thune has warned could paralyze the legislative process for weeks -- possibly even months.
But some Republican senators, like Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), have argued that changing the filibuster would allow for the bill's passage.
The bill passed the House in February, but four GOP senators this week voted against adding core elements of the bill to a budget reconciliation package that could pass next month with a simple-majority vote. Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) sponsored the amendment and instructed the Senate Rules Committee to fit these elements into the package.
Kennedy argued that it was worth the attempt to fit it into the package, saying on the Senate floor that "we ought to go back to having an Election Day and not an election month." His motion would waive the Budget Act's applicable rules that would prevent it from being attached to the package.
Other supporters of the SAVE America Act have stipulated that the bill was not drafted to pass the Senate through the budget reconciliation process.
Senate Democrats voted against the amendment, which failed to pass with a 48-50 vote.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) is looking to use a renewal of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act's (FISA) warrantless spy powers as a means to advance the SAVE America Act.
"I think FISA dies unless SAVE America is attached. Period," Luna told The Hill in an interview earlier this month.
Democrats have largely opposed the SAVE America Act, arguing that the bill would disenfranchise voters and limit college students and married women from voting. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) have compared the voting bill to Jim Crow laws.
"And if the SAVE Act becomes law," Clyburn told CNN's Jake Tapper in March, "it will reduce -- dramatically -- the number of African Americans currently serving in the Congress, and I think that what we need to do is spend our time working on saving this democracy that some people seem to want to throw into the ditch."