This Is Why Thune Can’t Get the SAVE Act Passed

This amidst the broader effort to advance legislation via the reconciliation process. Majority Leader Thune does not have the support of his own caucus. Fox News reports that a cohort of Senate Republicans joined Democrats to sink a late-night attempt to attach a version of voter ID and citizenship verification legislation to the GOP’s bill funding federal immigration enforcement. Sens. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., all voted against a modified version of the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act early Thursday morning. The only one who is understandable is Collins. She’s trying to keep her seat against a NAZI oysterman who is leading her by quite a bit in the polls. The others are betraying the peopl