By Alex Miller | 福克斯新闻
发布时间：2026年3月17日 美国东部时间下午4:01
周二，参议院共和党人成功启动了对参议院的控制权争夺，旨在让参议院民主党人公开反对特朗普支持的选民ID立法。
这一举措是为了将公众注意力从共和党内部对《保障美国选民资格法案》（SAVE America Act）的分歧上转移到参议院民主党人身上，因为民主党人最终拒绝投出必要的赞成票以通过该法案。
“没有一位民主党人会支持《SAVE法案》。这是一项激进的法案，”纽约州民主党参议员、参议院少数党领袖查克·舒默在参议院议场上表示。
“如果共和党人试图在这项立法上拖延时间，我们将不惜一切代价反对他们。”
[特朗普推动选民ID法案面临参议院考验，共和党反叛者威胁阻挠法案通过]
参议院多数党领袖约翰·图恩（R-S.D.）和共和党正准备与参议院少数党领袖查克·舒默（D-N.Y.）以及参议院民主党人就特朗普支持的选民ID立法展开激烈的参议院席位争夺。（Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images）
这也是唐纳德·特朗普总统、其党内保守派以及狂热的网络运动向参议院多数党领袖约翰·图恩（R-S.D.）施压，要求将该法案提上日程的最终结果。
特朗普表示，他周一上午与图恩谈到了即将到来的流程，并说”他正在努力”。
“我希望约翰·图恩能成功推进此事，”特朗普说。
当被问及特朗普是否理解前进道路时，图恩表示：”嗯，我认为他希望我们为自己的立场而战，我们会的，然后看看民主党人想怎么做。”
然而，开启这场将持续数天的马拉松式法案辩论并非没有障碍。阿拉斯加州共和党参议员莉萨·穆尔科斯基与所有参议院民主党人一道阻止了该法案。曾威胁要尽一切可能阻挠该法案的北卡罗来纳州共和党参议员汤姆·蒂利斯没有投票。
尽管犹他州参议员迈克·李、佛罗里达州参议员里克·斯科特和威斯康星州参议员罗恩·约翰逊的游说活动部分成功地将该法案提上日程，但该法案仍注定失败。
李周一在X平台的视频通话中表示，他和特朗普有信心，如果共和党人”做好准备，不拖延直到法案通过，就能赢得这场席位争夺”。
[参议院共和党人将归咎于特朗普支持的SAVE法案失败]
2026年3月15日周日，总统唐纳德·特朗普在从佛罗里达州西棕榈滩飞往马里兰州安德鲁斯联合基地的途中，在空军一号过道上回答记者提问。（Mark Schiefelbein/AP）
李和一群共和党人推动图恩进行连续演讲阻挠议事策略，以有效削弱参议院民主党人的反对，并将通过《SAVE America法案》的门槛降低到仅需简单多数投票。
但共和党人对此举措并非一致支持，这使得一个新颖的想法变成了一个数学难题，考虑到共和党没有足够的票数来阻止几项可能大幅改变该法案的民主党修正案，这可能会轻易反噬共和党。
“如果你的参议员不支持用连续演讲阻挠议事策略来通过《SAVE America法案》，你可能需要换掉他们，”李在X平台上说。
随着最初的障碍被克服，参议院现在将开始马拉松式的辩论和修正案程序。修正案投票只会在席位争夺的后期出现，并且需要共和党人通过民主党可能阻挠的另一项程序性考验。
而每一项修正案（共和党将控制投票）都必须达到60票的门槛，这意味着特朗普希望附加到法案上的任何条款都无法通过。
[特朗普支持的选民ID法案面临共和党阻力，蒂利斯誓言阻止它]
犹他州共和党参议员迈克·李于2025年10月7日在华盛顿参加参议院司法委员会听证会（Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images）
密苏里州共和党参议员埃里克·施密特将牵头提出一系列修正案，其中包括特朗普希望对法案进行的修改。
这些修改包括：终止未经请求的邮寄选票（军人、残疾人及患病者除外）；禁止男性参加女子体育赛事；以及禁止对未成年人进行变性手术。
终止邮寄投票在共和党人中并非大获全胜，许多人对此做法的全面终止表示反对。
约翰逊在投票前承认了这一障碍，并同意不能完全停止缺席选票，但立法者应该对这种做法找到”合理的限制”。
“我一直认为你不能禁止缺席选票，否则我就无法投票了，”约翰逊告诉福克斯新闻数字版。”我每周二都在华盛顿，你知道的。所以，必须有缺席选票，但必须对其加以限制。”
随着席位争夺的激烈进行，参议院民主党人也可能造成最大程度的阻力，他们将采取程序性手段来拖延进程，这可能会影响俄克拉荷马州共和党参议员马克韦恩·穆林的确认听证会时间安排，因为共和党正急于任命他为特朗普的下任国土安全部部长。
亚历克斯·米勒是福克斯新闻数字版报道美国参议院的撰稿人。
GOP triggers marathon Senate fight to expose Dems’ opposition to Trump-backed voter ID bill
By Alex Miller | Fox News
Published March 17, 2026 4:01pm EDT
Senate Republicans on Tuesday successfully launched their floor takeover to put Senate Democrats on record against Trump-backed voter ID legislation.
It’s a move to shift the spotlight from internal GOP divisions over the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act onto Senate Democrats, who are ultimately withholding the needed votes to pass the bill.
“Not a single Democrat will support the SAVE Act. It is a radical bill,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said on the Senate floor.
“And if Republicans try to burn time on this legislation here on the floor, we will oppose them for as long as it takes.”
[TRUMP VOTER ID PUSH FACES SENATE TEST AS GOP REBELS THREATEN TO SINK BILL]
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., and the GOP are gearing up for a floor battle with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Senate Democrats over Trump-backed voter ID legislation.(Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)
It’s also the culmination of a pressure campaign on Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., from President Donald Trump, conservatives in his conference and a fervent online campaign to put the bill on the floor.
Trump said he spoke with Thune Monday morning about the forthcoming process and said “he’s trying.”
“I hope John Thune can get it across the line,” Trump said.
When asked if Trump understood the path forward, Thune said, “Well, I think he wants us to fight for our position, which we will, and then we’ll see what the Democrats want to do.”
Still, opening up what will be a multi-day marathon debate on the bill wasn’t without its hiccups. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, joined all Senate Democrats to block the legislation. Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., who threatened to do everything he could to block the bill, did not vote.
While the lobbying campaign from Sens. Mike Lee, R-Utah; Rick Scott, R-Fla.; and Ron Johnson, R-Wis., was partly successful in getting the bill on the floor, it is still destined to fail.
Lee said during a video call on X Monday that he and Trump were confident they could win the floor fight if Republicans “get this thing teed up, and we do not leave it until it’s passed.”
[SENATE GOP EYES BLAME GAME AS TRUMP-BACKED SAVE ACT HEADS FOR DEFEAT]
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One Sunday, March 15, 2026, en route from West Palm Beach, Fla., to Joint Base Andrews, Md.(Mark Schiefelbein/AP)
Lee and a cohort of Republicans pushed Thune to enact a talking filibuster to effectively wear down Senate Democrats and lower the threshold to pass the SAVE America Act to just a simple majority vote.
But there wasn’t unanimous support among Republicans for the move, making a novel idea into a math problem that could easily backfire on the GOP, given that Republicans don’t have the votes to block several Democratic amendments that would drastically change the bill.
“If your senators don’t support using the talking filibuster to pass the SAVE America Act, you might need to replace them,” Lee said on X.
With the initial hurdle passed, the Senate will now begin the marathon debate and amendment process. Amendment votes will only come at the tail end of the floor battle and will require Republicans to take another procedural test that Democrats could block.
And each amendment, which Republicans will control, has to hit a 60-vote threshold, meaning that none of the provisions that Trump wants to be attached to the bill will survive.
[TRUMP-BACKED VOTER ID BILL FACES GOP RESISTANCE AS TILLIS VOWS TO STOP IT]
Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington Oct. 7, 2025(Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., will head off the flurry of amendments with a package of add-ons that include Trump’s desired modifications to the bill.
Those include ending unsolicited mail-in ballots, with exceptions for military service members, disabilities and illness; banning men from women’s sports; and halting transgender surgeries on minors.
Halting mail-in balloting isn’t a home run among Republicans, with many pushing back on a sweeping end to the practice.
Johnson acknowledged that hurdle before the vote and agreed that absentee ballots couldn’t be halted altogether, but lawmakers should find “reasonable restrictions” on the practice.
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“I’ve argued myself you can’t ban absentee ballots, or I’m not gonna be able to vote,” Johnson told Fox News Digital. “I’m here on Tuesdays in Washington, you know. So, you have to have absentee ballots, but there’s got to be restrictions on it.”
Senate Democrats could inflict maximum pain as the floor battle rages, too, turning to procedural moves to bog down the process that could derail the timing of Sen. Markwayne Mullin’s, R-Okla., confirmation hearing as the GOP sprints to install him as Trump’s next Department of Homeland Security chief.
Alex Miller is a writer for Fox News Digital covering the U.S. Senate.
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