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The Home of Representatives’ prime Democrat claimed Republicans’ election safety invoice was tantamount to “voter suppression” on Monday.
Home Majority Chief Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., criticized the Home GOP-led SAVE America Act throughout his weekly press convention forward of an anticipated vote on the invoice coming as early as Wednesday.
“Republicans have adopted voter suppression as an electoral technique. That is what the so-called SAVE Act is all about,” Jeffries mentioned.
He mentioned the invoice getting a vote this week is “worse than” a earlier iteration merely referred to as the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, which handed the Home in April 2025 with help from all Republicans and 4 Democrats.
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U.S. Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries speaks throughout a press convention on Capitol Hill on Nov. 3, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Roberto Schmidt/Getty Photographs)
The principle thrust of the SAVE Act was implementing a brand new proof of citizenship requirement within the voter registration course of in all 50 states.
The brand new invoice, led by Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, and Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, would additionally create a federal voter ID normal on the polls, requiring folks to point out a type of identification when casting a poll in nationwide elections.
Jeffries additionally pointed to a provision that may require information-sharing between state election officers and federal authorities in verifying citizenship on present voter rolls, accusing Republicans of making an attempt to offer People’ information to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
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“This model, as I perceive it, will truly give [the Department of Homeland Security] the ability to get voting information from states throughout the nation. Why would these extremists assume that is a good suggestion?” Jeffries mentioned.
Speaker of the Home Mike Johnson, R-La., gestures as he meets with reporters forward of a key procedural vote to finish the partial authorities shutdown, on the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photograph)
“Who’d need DHS and ICE, who’ve been brutally, viciously and violently focusing on on a regular basis People, to have extra information concerning the American folks? It is outrageous. One thing is absolutely incorrect with these people. I feel they’re making an attempt to lose elections at this level.”
There isn’t any validated proof up to now that non-citizen voting has swayed the outcomes of any federal election.
However Republicans have argued that the inflow of unlawful immigrants below the Biden administration has made the issue an actual risk in coming elections.
However, voter ID provisions have confirmed well-liked in a number of public surveys.
A Pew Analysis Middle ballot launched in August 2025 confirmed a whopping 83% of individuals supported government-issued picture ID necessities for displaying as much as vote, in comparison with simply 16% of people that disapproved of it.
Voters stand in line earlier than casting ballots at a polling location in Dallas, Texas, on Nov. 8, 2022. (Nitashia Johnson/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photographs)
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Jeffries additionally mentioned the invoice would die within the Senate, the place a minimum of some Democrats are wanted below present guidelines to beat a filibuster and advance the laws.
“It is not going to move. If it squeaks by the Home, it is useless on arrival within the Senate. They’re losing time,” he mentioned.
The true risk of the invoice failing within the Senate is why a gaggle of Home conservatives are pushing for Senate Majority Chief John Thune, R-S.D., to upend the chamber’s guidelines on the filibuster to do away with the 60-vote threshold wanted to beat one. Thune has not dedicated to any route.
