特恩将在下周安排《SAVE美国法案》进行投票，但不会发起冗长发言式阻挠议事
作者：亚历克斯·米勒
福克斯新闻
发布时间：2026年3月12日 美国东部时间上午6:00
参议院共和党人深知特朗普支持的选民身份法案注定失败，正试图将责任推给参议院民主党人。
南达科他州共和党议员、参议院多数党领袖约翰·特恩计划下周将该法案提交至参议院全体会议表决，但尽管唐纳德·特朗普总统和共和党基层施压，共和党人不会采取冗长发言式阻挠议事策略。
“我们既没有足够票数推进法案，也无法在发起冗长发言后维持其效果，”特恩表示，”但这只是数学问题，我无能为力。我理解总统希望解决此问题的迫切心情，我们都一样。”
特朗普与特恩就选民身份法案最后通牒产生冲突，共和党内部对前进路径仍存分歧
南达科他州共和党议员、参议院多数党领袖约翰·特恩计划下周将《SAVE美国法案》提交至参议院全体会议表决，但不会通过冗长发言阻挠法案进程。（Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images）
尽管经过长时间马拉松式辩论后，共和党理论上可在简单多数票门槛下通过《保障美国选民资格（SAVE）法案》，但特恩多次警告，共和党内部缺乏足够票数阻止民主党修正案，这些修正案可能彻底重塑法案内容。
然而，特朗普及部分保守派网络声音要求不惜一切代价通过该法案。特朗普警告称，若法案未能通过，共和党将在即将到来的中期选举中惨败。
“这将确保我们在中期选举中失败。如果你不通过它，麻烦就大了，”特朗普在本周早些时候众议院共和党年度政策务虚会上对众议院共和党人说道。
与此同时，参议院民主党人几乎一致反对该法案，只有宾夕法尼亚州民主党参议员约翰·费特曼例外，这几乎确保了法案在参议院的失败。
纽约州民主党参议员、参议院少数党领袖查克·舒默重申反对《SAVE美国法案》，指责该法案旨在”破坏”和”清洗”全国选民名单。
“这是一项摧毁国家的法案，”舒默表示，”它根本不是关于投票时出示身份证明的问题。”
特恩保证选民身份法案将在参议院表决，尽管舒默和民主党反对：’我们会进行投票’
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共和党另一种选择是废除阻挠议事规则以通过《SAVE美国法案》，一些人认为民主党在重新控制参议院后也会这么做。
但共和党人同样不愿废除阻挠议事规则。
“我认为我们的首要目标是尝试通过该法案，但我理解这有多困难，我同情不废除阻挠议事规则的立场，”威斯康星州共和党议员罗恩·约翰逊告诉福克斯新闻数字版，”但除此之外，我们的下一个目标应该是确保民主党受到指责，因为正是他们在真正阻挠这项法案。”
共和党可能采取的策略是效仿冗长发言式阻挠议事，但省去冗长辩论和修正案投票环节。
舒默与民主党人在国土安全部资金问题上立场坚定，尽管诺姆爆出炸弹式罢免消息
2026年3月3日，纽约州民主党参议员、参议院少数党领袖查克·舒默在华盛顿特区美国国会大厦举行的新闻发布会上。（Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images）
约翰逊与犹他州共和党参议员迈克·李、佛罗里达州共和党参议员里克·斯科特会面，向特朗普施压推动《SAVE美国法案》。他表示，共和党可能不会对法案进行直接投票，而是通过大量修正案试图重塑法案内容，最后再进行最终投票。
这些修正案可能包括特朗普要求的调整，如除特定例外情况外禁止邮寄选票、禁止男性参加女性体育赛事以及暂停对未成年人进行变性手术。
“我们要让民主党人在记录上表态，’哦，你想在跨性别主义的祭坛上继续残害儿童’，”约翰逊说道。
通过预算协调程序通过法案也是另一种可能，共和党去年曾用此方法强行通过特朗普的”宏伟法案”。
路易斯安那州共和党参议员约翰·肯尼迪是该策略最直言不讳的支持者。但为使《SAVE美国法案》通过协调程序，必须符合伯德规则，即任何纳入协调方案的条款都必须有预算影响。
“这实际上取决于参议院议事主任的决定，我会找最好的人才起草一项能通过伯德规则审查的条款，”肯尼迪表示，”与议事主任辩论时必须做好准备，不能即兴发挥。”
亚历克斯·米勒是福克斯新闻数字版报道美国参议院的记者。
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Senate GOP eyes blame game as Trump-backed SAVE Act heads for defeat
Thune tees up SAVE America Act for a vote next week, but won’t launch the talking filibuster
By Alex Miller
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Published March 12, 2026 6:00am EDT
Senate Republicans know that Trump-backed voter ID legislation is doomed to fail and are trying to find a way to pin the blame on Senate Democrats.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., plans to bring the bill to the floor next week, but Republicans won’t take the route of launching into a talking filibuster despite pressure from President Donald Trump and the GOP base to do so.
“We don’t have the votes either to proceed, get on a talking filibuster, nor to sustain one if we got on it,” Thune said. “But that is just a function of math, and there isn’t anything I can do about that. I mean, I understand the president’s got a passion to see this issue addressed, as we all do.”
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Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., plans to put the SAVE America Act on the floor next week but won’t turn to the talking filibuster to pass the legislation.(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
While the end result after an exhaustive marathon of debate would allow Republicans to pass the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act at a simple-majority threshold, Thune has time and again warned that the votes aren’t there among Republicans to block Democratic amendments that could completely reshape the bill.
Still, Trump and a sphere of online conservative voices are demanding that the bill pass at any cost. Trump warned that if it does not, Republicans will fall flat in the upcoming midterm election cycle.
“It will guarantee the midterms. If you don’t get it, big trouble,” Trump told House Republicans at their annual policy retreat earlier this week.
Meanwhile, Senate Democrats are nearly unified in their opposition to the bill, save for Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., which all but ensures its failure in the upper chamber.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., reiterated his opposition to the SAVE America Act and charged that it was legislation geared toward “destroying” and “purging” voter rolls across the country.
“This is a bill that destroys the country,” Schumer said. “And it is not about showing ID when you show up to vote.”
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The other option for the GOP would be to nuke the filibuster to pass the SAVE America Act, which some argue Democrats would do anyway when they eventually regain control of the upper chamber.
There is not an appetite among Republicans to blow up the filibuster either.
“I suggest our first goal will be to try and pass it, but I understand how difficult that is, and I’m sympathetic with the position of not ending the filibuster,” Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., told Fox News Digital. “But short of that, our next goal ought to be to make sure the Democrats get blamed, because they’re the ones that are truly blocking this.”
A likely strategy that Republicans will turn to is in the spirit of the talking filibuster, just without the marathon of debate and amendment votes that process would yield.
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Johnson, who, along with Sens. Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Rick Scott, R-Fla., met with Trump to push for the SAVE America Act, said that instead of a straight up-or-down vote on the bill, Republicans could flood the floor with amendments in a genuine bid to reshape the bill. Then would come a final vote at the end of the amendment flurry.
Those add-ons to the bill would include tweaks that Trump has requested, like nixing mail-in ballots save for certain exceptions, banning men from women’s sports and halting transgender surgical procedures on minors.
“We’re getting the Democrats on record voting, ‘Oh, you want to keep mutilating children on the altar of transgenderism,’” Johnson said.
Another route to pass the bill could be through the budget reconciliation process, which Republicans used to ram Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” through Congress last year.
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Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., has been the most vocal proponent of that tactic. But in order for the SAVE America Act to survive the reconciliation route, it would have to pass muster under the Byrd Rule, which requires that anything crammed into a reconciliation package have a budgetary effect.
Kennedy argued the best way to counter that is to lawyer up.
“It really comes down to what the [Senate] parliamentarian says, and I would get the best minds I could find to try to draft a provision that would survive Byrd,” Kennedy said. “When you argue or debate with the parliamentarian, you’ve got to be ready. You can’t just walk in there and pull it out of your orifices.”
Alex Miller is a writer for Fox News Digital covering the U.S. Senate.
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