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Rep. Jim Jordan Says Senate Republicans Must Nuke the Filibuster Now to Pass SAVE America Act Before Democrats Do It Themselves

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan has delivered a strong message to Senate Republicans, arguing that they need to get tough and eliminate the filibuster to pass the SAVE America Act while they still have the chance.

Jordan warned that Democrats will not hesitate to scrap the filibuster if they regain power, making it essential for Republicans to act decisively now to secure election integrity measures before the 2026 midterms.

Speaking to Fox News’ The Big Weekend Show, Jordan discussed President Trump’s push for the GOP to prioritize the SAVE America Act, a key election integrity bill that would require proof of citizenship for voter registration and implement other safeguards against fraud.

The legislation passed the House but has stalled in the Senate.

Jordan did not hold back in criticizing colleagues who refuse to consider ending the filibuster.

“It looks like Republican senators who will not vote to ever get rid of the filibuster. I think we know what’s going to happen!” he stated.

Jordan followed up by pointing out the likely outcome if Democrats take control.

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Trump: Kill the filibuster to pass SAVE America Act or you may never see another Republican president again

President Donald Trump issued a stark warning to Republicans, arguing that their political survival depends on abolishing the Senate filibuster and passing the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act.

In a Sunday Truth Social post, Trump framed the issue as integral to the future of the party.

“There is nothing Americans can’t do except get Voter ID (Identification), Proof of Citizenship or, most importantly of all, TERMINATE THE FILIBUSTER (which the Democrats will do immediately upon gaining Office, and add 2 more States, 4 more Senators, 8 more Congressmen, at least 20 Electoral Votes, and it will be impossible for a Republican to ever be elected President again. I don’t want to be the last Republican President!),” the president stated.

“GET SMART REPUBLICANS, IF YOU DON’T, YOU WON’T BE IN OFFICE FOR LONG!” he added.

Trump has championed the passage of the SAVE America Act, which would require voter ID and proof of citizenship in order to participate in federal elections, as essential to ensuring the integrity of elections. However, the act has faced steep opposition in the Senate, where the filibuster rules have prevented Republicans from passing it, despite holding a thin majority.

During his July 4th address, Trump again reiterated his commitment to having the measure adopted — as a crowd of more than one hundred thousand spectators cheered. This was followed by a record-breaking 40-minute fireworks show.

“And we want to keep America great. And we will do so by approving the SAVE America Act, which means all voters must show voter ID,” the president said during his speech at the National Mall. “All voters must provide a little thing called proof of citizenship, and there will be no mail-in ballots except for illness, disability, military deployment or travel.”

“And you won’t have cheating on the elections anymore. It’s very simple,” he added.

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Trump Calls on Senate to End Filibuster, Says “Weak and Ineffective” Republican Senators that Stand in the Way Should be “Exposed”

President Trump once again called on Republican Senators to end the filibuster amid ongoing gridlock and partial government shutdown.

The Senate very early Friday morning, after a marathon session, unanimously approved a voice-vote package to fund the Department of Homeland Security, except for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and key parts of Customs and Border Protection.

Democrats flat-out refused to support full funding without gutting immigration raids and deportation operations.

Instead of fighting for the full funding, Thune and the Senate GOP folded in the dead of night, when no one was watching.

The House of Representatives late Friday night passed a short-term DHS funding bill.

The House voted 213-203 to fully fund the Department of Homeland Security for 8 weeks.

However, the bill is likely dead on arrival in the Senate because it won’t get the 60 votes needed to pass the measure.

The SAVE America Act is still stalled in the Senate.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune and others have floated passing the SAVE America Act through reconciliation which only requires 51 votes.

This requires approval from the Senate Parliamentarian and she would immediately slash the SAVE America Act from the reconciliation package because it is not a budgetary item.

The only option is to nuke the filibuster and pass bills with 51 votes in the Senate.

The president once again called on Senators to nuke the filibuster.

Trump said it is time to expose the Republican Senators who stand in the way.

“It is time for the Senate Filibuster to END. Those weak and ineffective Republicans Senators that stand in the way of this should be exposed to the public. The Democrats are CRAZY!” Trump said in a Truth Social post.

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Pollster Frank Luntz Has the Absolute Dumbest Take on Cory Booker’s Filibuster to Nowhere

Pollster Frank Luntz has said some dumb things over the years, but his take on Senator Cory Booker’s recent, and completely pointless filibuster, really takes the cake. This was over the top, even for him.

During an appearance on News Nation, Luntz suggested that Booker’s filibuster ‘may have changed the course of political history.’

Huh? Really, Frank?

The Hill reports:

Frank Luntz: Booker marathon speech ‘may have changed the course of political history’

Longtime GOP pollster Frank Luntz said Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) “may have changed the course of political history” with his marathon speech breaking the Senate’s record for the longest floor speech in its history.

“I want to emphasize what Cory Booker did over the last 24 hours may have changed the course of political history. I watched a lot of it. I listened to words.  I listened to phrases,” Luntz said during a Tuesday evening appearance on NewsNation’s “On Balance.”

He confirmed that Booker’s unprecedented feat “struck a tone” with Americans in the midst of the Trump administration’s controversial policies.

“He struck the kind of tone that grassroots Democrats are looking for. He gave them a reason to fight. He gave them a reason to stand up and say, this is my country too,” Luntz told anchor Leland Vittert.

“Of course, every Republican watching will say, ‘This is nonsense.’  But he is not speaking just to Republicans, he’s speaking to Americans, and what I saw over the last 25 hours absolutely blew me away,” he added.

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Booker Previously Labeled Filibusters An ‘Abuse Of Power’ Years Prior To Setting Senate Speech Record

Democrat New Jersey Senator Cory Booker previously labeled Senate filibusters an “abuse of power” in 2022, prior to launching yesterday’s 25-hour filibuster on Tuesday — the longest in U.S. Senate history.

A filibuster is “a loosely defined term for action designed to prolong debate and delay or prevent a vote on a bill, resolution, amendment, or other debatable question,” according to the U.S. Senate website.

Booker (D-N.J.) began his speech at 7 p.m. on Monday, going on to speak for “25 hours and 5 minutes,” highly contradicting his previous comments — when he referred to the tactic as “abuse.”

“The filibuster has been abused to stop reforms supported by the vast majority of Americans–from background checks to protecting the right to vote. We must stop this abuse of power,” Booker wrote in January 2022.

Booker’s historically lengthy speech surpassed former Senator Strom Thurmond, who previously held the record, speaking for 24 hours and 18 minutes.

The New Jersey senator accomplished the feat without “eating any food” or drinking any water for the entire duration of his speech, which helped him avoid the need to use a restroom. However, other reports have claimed that he only took a few quick sips of water throughout his speech.

“I don’t want my doctor to be mad at me, but I really spent time dehydrating myself beforehand, so I did not have to go to the bathroom,” Booker stated on Tuesday night.

“My challenge was, was that my strategy was to stop eating, I think I stopped eating on Friday, and then to stop drinking the night before I started on Monday, and that had its benefits and it had its really downsides,” he continued. “And so instead of fighting or figuring out how to go to the bathroom, I ended up, I think really, unfortunately, dehydrating myself.”

To retain the floor, Booker had to remain standing and was not able to leave his desk for the duration of his “marathon” speech.

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Senate Democrats Use the Jim Crow Filibuster to Protect the Kremlin

That the filibuster is an inherently racist tool, a relic of Jim Crow, is an odd position for Democrats to take given that just yesterday, they used the filibuster to block legislation proposed by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX). Indeed, Sen. Cruz’s bill not only attracted the votes of forty-nine out of fifty Republican Senators (the only exception was Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)), but also six Democratic Senators who face close races in 2022 and/or are from purple states: Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Catherine Cortez-Masto (D-NV), Mark Kelly (D-AZ), Jacky Rosen (D-NV), Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Raphael Warnock (D-GA). That meant that Cruz had 55 votes for his bill — a clear majority. So why did it not pass? Because Senate Democrats invoked the racist Jim Crow relic in order to refuse to allow a vote on that bill unless it first attained 60 votes to close the debate. In other words, Democrats — on Thursday— used the filibuster to block Cruz’s bill despite its having the support of the majority of the Senate.

What makes the Democrats’ conduct here even more notable is the substance of Cruz’s bill that they blocked with the filibuster. Cruz sought to impose sanctions on the Russian pipeline company Nord Stream 2, which is constructing the pipeline that will allow Moscow to sell large amounts of cheap natural gas to Germany and to Europe more broadly. There are few more pressing priorities for the Kremlin, if there are any, than construction of this pipeline. So by blocking Cruz’s bill, Democrats not only used a racist filibuster, but they did so in order to protect Vladimir Putin and a vital Russian company from sanctions.

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