预算调解策略或可绕过民主党阻挠议事规则，但肯尼迪称该想法尚未获得同僚广泛支持
作者：埃里克·麦克
福克斯新闻
发布时间：2026年3月19日 美国东部时间下午12:16 | 更新时间：2026年3月19日 美国东部时间下午1:31
来自路易斯安那州的共和党参议员约翰·肯尼迪正敦促”精明的律师”们重新制定《拯救美国法案》（SAVE America Act），试图通过简单多数的预算调解程序使其在参议院通过。他表示，这一想法在同僚中尚未获得太多支持。
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来自路易斯安那州的共和党参议员约翰·肯尼迪以其标志性的即兴南方风格，敦促国会内外的”精明律师”们重新制定《拯救美国法案》，使其通过参议院议事规则专家（parliamentarian）的审查，从而以简单多数的预算调解程序推进至法律层面。
“不尝试永远不知道结果，我们还没有试过。”肯尼迪在周三晚间关于联邦选举诚信法案的简短参议院辩论窗口期说道。该法案旨在建立选民身份证制度、公民身份证明、经过审查的选民名单和邮寄选票改革。
“如果这项法案真如大家所说那般重要——我认为确实如此，因为我们讨论的不仅是选举，更是美国民众对选举的信心与信任——那么我们就应该尝试通过调解程序来推进它。”
肯尼迪承认自己”在这个问题上处于少数派”，但打趣道：”有时候多数派只是意味着所有傻瓜都站在同一边。”
“有时候少数派可能是对的。”他指出，参议院多数党领袖、南达科他州共和党人约翰·图恩（John Thune）需要更多的说服才能支持预算调解策略，尤其是在本周关于可能成为特朗普标志性选举诚信法律的有限辩论中。
根据肯尼迪的说法，美国国内有足够多的”精明律师”能够找到该法案的预算调解版本。
“我还没有说服图恩参议员，也没有说服我两边的所有同僚。但我会继续像他们偷走了感恩节和圣诞节一样追逐他们。”
在参议院复活节休会前的一周内，该法案可能必须克服民主党人的阻挠议事规则，尤其是在其他参议院优先事项（包括俄克拉荷马州共和党人马克韦恩·穆林（Markwayne Mullin）的全参议院投票确认其为下一任国土安全部部长）的新紧迫性下。
资深共和党消息人士周四告诉福克斯新闻，尽管《拯救美国法案》的辩论仍在进行，参议院可以在讨论穆林提名的同时继续推进，但这将比正常的确认程序更加复杂，并需要额外的程序性投票。
肯尼迪表示，参议院程序往往很复杂，但几个”精明律师”足以应对。
“通过调解程序通过的任何法案都必须符合《预算控制法》的框架：我们称之为给条款‘洗澡’（Byrd bath），”肯尼迪解释道，”而参议院议事规则专家将决定哪些条款符合《预算控制法》。”
肯尼迪向华盛顿的”精明律师”们发起了一场”奥利弗·温德尔·斯卡利亚”式的挑战，提到了美国历史上两位最具影响力且风格相似的最高法院大法官：小奥利弗·温德尔·霍姆斯（Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.）和安东宁·斯卡利亚（Antonin Scalia）。
“我们参议院有很多精明的律师：每个人都认为自己是奥利弗·温德尔·斯卡利亚。”肯尼迪说，”但美国还有很多其他精明的律师。
“我想说的是：我们还没有邀请这些精明的律师——有些在参议院，有些——信不信由你——不在参议院——来制定一部符合《预算控制法》并能通过议事规则专家审查的《拯救法案》。”
由犹他州共和党参议员迈克·李（Mike Lee）积极推动的该法案，在参议院面临着60票的高门槛，而共和党仅以53-47的微弱优势控制参议院。45名民主党人和2名与他们结盟的独立人士几乎总是阻挠任何特朗普政府的议程项目。
但肯尼迪敦促道，为何要与阻挠抗争？不如直接绕过它。
“我的一些同僚，那些‘奥利弗·温德尔·斯卡利亚’类型的人说：‘肯尼迪，你知道那永远做不到’——他们错了！”肯尼迪说，”我在这里待了10年：我见过很多条款通过审查，在我认为毫无希望的‘洗澡’程序中幸存下来。
“我也见过本以为是十拿九稳的条款被议事规则专家否决。”他补充道，同时也承认这一点。
周三晚间，犹他州共和党人迈克·李主持了一场X平台（原推特）简报会，驳斥了阻挠者提出的”谎言”。
“我仔细听取了数小时民主党人的反对意见，却从未听到一个我无法反驳的论点——事实上，在过去24小时的参议院辩论中我已经驳斥了所有这些论点。”李在X平台上写道，”更糟糕的是，他们的大多数论点都基于对我的法案的严重歪曲。”
福克斯新闻数字频道已联系李的办公室，就肯尼迪的预算调解建议征求评论。
埃里克·麦克（Eric Mack）是福克斯新闻数字频道的记者，专注于突发新闻报道。
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Sen Kennedy urges ‘smart lawyers’ to rework SAVE America Act for simple-majority path
Budget reconciliation strategy could bypass Dem filibuster, but Kennedy yet to find much support for idea
By Eric Mack
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Published March 19, 2026 12:16pm EDT | Updated March 19, 2026 1:31pm EDT
Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., is urging “smart lawyers” to rework the SAVE America Act to try to pass it with a simple budget reconciliation majority, an idea he said does not have much support among his colleagues.
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Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., in his patented off-the-cuff, southern style, urged the “smart lawyers” in Congress and beyond to rework the SAVE America Act to pass Senate parliamentarian “muster,” so it can move to law with a simple budget reconciliation majority.
“You don’t know till you try, and we haven’t tried,” Kennedy said Wednesday night during the brief Senate debate window on the federal election integrity bill seeking voter I.D., proof of citizenship, vetted voter rolls and mail-in ballot reforms.
“And if this bill is as important as everybody says it is — and I think it is because we’re not just talking about voting; we’re talking about the confidence, the trust of the American people in our elections if — this bill is as important as we say it is, we should try it through reconciliation.”
Kennedy admitted he is “in the minority on this,” but joked that “sometimes the majority just means all the fools are on the same side.”
“Sometimes someone in the minority can be right,” he said, noting Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., needs even more convincing on budget reconciliation than he needed to bring this week’s limited debate to the Senate floor on what could be President Donald Trump’s signature election integrity law.
There are enough “smart lawyers” in the U.S. to find a budget reconciliation form of the bill, according to Kennedy.
“I haven’t convinced Sen. Thune to that,” he said. “I haven’t convinced all my colleagues on either side of the aisle. But, I plan on continuing to chase them like they stole Thanksgiving and Christmas put together.”
The bill might have to overcome Democrat filibuster in the next week before the Senate’s Easter recess, particularly amid the new urgency on other Senate priorities, including Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., moving to a full Senate vote to confirm him as the next Department of Homeland Security secretary.
The Senate can debate Mullin’s nomination as the SAVE America Act debate remains open, but it will be more complex than the normal confirmation process and take a few extra procedural votes, senior GOP sources told Fox News on Thursday.
The Senate procedure tends to be complex, but nothing a few “smart lawyers” cannot navigate, according to Kennedy.
“Anything you pass through reconciliation has to conform with the contours of the Budget Control Act: We call that giving a provision a ‘Byrd bath,’” Kennedy said. “And our parliamentarian decides what passes muster under the Budget Control Act.”
Kennedy dropped an “Oliver Wendell Scalia” challenge on the professed “smart lawyers” around Washington, referencing two of the most influential (and stylistically similar) Supreme Court justices in American history: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. and Antonin Scalia.
“We’ve got a lot of smart lawyers in the United States Senate: Every single one of them thinks they’re Oliver Wendell Scalia,” Kennedy said. “But we’ve got a lot of other smart lawyers in America.
“Here’s what I’m getting at: We have yet to try going to these smart lawyers, some in the Senate — and some, believe it or not, not in the Senate — and saying, ‘craft us a SAVE act that will pass muster under the Budget Control Act and can be blessed by the parliamentarian.’”
The bill being most actively pushed by Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, faces the tall 60-vote hurdle in the Senate, with Republicans holding just a 53-47 majority. The 45 Democrats and the two independents that caucus with them almost always obstruct any Trump agenda item.
But why fight the obstruction, Kennedy urged, just do an end run around it.
“Some of my colleagues, those Oliver Wendell Scalia types, they say, ‘Kennedy, you know that you’ll never be able to do that’: They don’t know!” Kennedy said. “I’ve been here 10 years: I’ve seen things pass muster, survive a bird bath that I didn’t think had a hope in hell.
“And I’ve seen provisions pass the parliamentarians’ judgment under a Byrd bath,” he continued, also admitting, “I’ve seen them not pass that I thought were slam dunks.”
Lee hosted an X Spaces briefing late Wednesday night, dispelling the “lies” put forth by filibustering Democrats.
“I’ve listened carefully to hours upon hours of the Democrats’ arguments against it I have yet to hear a single argument that I cannot refute — and in fact have not refuted on the Senate floor in the last 24 hours,” Lee wrote on X. “Even worse, most of their arguments are based on a profoundly indefensible mischaracterization of my bill.”
Fox News Digital reached out to Lee’s office for comment on Kennedy’s budget reconciliation recommendation.
Eric Mack is a writer for Fox News Digital covering breaking news.
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