2026年6月16日 美国东部时间早上8:00 / 福克斯新闻
参议员约翰·肯尼迪称和解程序是“我们唯一的机会”，但表示共和党已浪费了太多时间
作者：亚历克斯·米勒，福克斯新闻
参议院多数党领袖约翰·桑恩就唐纳德·特朗普总统解雇参议院议事主持人、通过《拯救美国法案》等提议发表看法。
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唐纳德·特朗普总统希望共和党将他长期以来推动的选民身份证和公民身份核查法案纳入党派立法提案，但就连该法案最坚定的支持者也认为这不可能实现。
特朗普上周要求共和党着手制定第三份预算和解法案，将3500亿美元国防开支与《保障美国选民资格法案》（即《拯救美国法案》）打包进同一法案。
共和党刚刚通过第二份和解法案，为特朗普任期剩余时间的移民执法提供资金，他们对再次启动该程序最多持冷淡态度，尤其是在中期选举快速临近、剩余时间不多的情况下。
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路易斯安那州共和党参议员约翰·肯尼迪认为，第三份预算和解法案不太可能在今年通过。（格雷姆·斯隆/彭博社 via 盖蒂图片社）
但部分人认为，将民主党完全排除在外的和解程序是通过《拯救美国法案》的唯一途径。
“这是我们唯一的机会，唯一的机会，”路易斯安那州共和党参议员约翰·肯尼迪说，“我只是认为我们没有足够的时间。我们已经浪费了大量时间，而且我不确定我们能否就法案内容达成一致。不是每个人都像我这么好相处。”
该法案面临的问题是双重的。参议院民主党人已誓言在议会阻挠该法案，这意味着达到60票的阻挠议事门槛的希望完全落空——而且并非所有共和党议员都支持该法案。
“我支持选民身份证制度，也支持只有美国公民才能投票，但民主党人坚决反对，而且我们没有足够的共和党议员来填补缺口，”德克萨斯州共和党参议员约翰·科宁说，“因此我们应该继续前进，专注于赢得中期选举，而不是内斗。”
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共和党已多次尝试通过该法案均告失败，甚至在今年早些时候发起准接管议会 floor 的行动，强迫就该议题进行辩论。
尽管如此，南达科他州共和党参议院多数党领袖约翰·桑恩承认，“我们没有足够的票数”。
“即便你只将其限定在照片身份证和选民登记的公民身份这两个问题上，在参议院也需要60票，”桑恩说，“唯一的办法是废除或取消立法阻挠议事，但美国参议院中支持这一做法的票数远远不够。”
试图将法案纳入和解程序——该程序只需简单多数票即可通过——除了票数问题外还有其他障碍。
该程序受《伯德规则》约束，该规则大致规定，和解法案中的任何条款都必须直接涉及预算影响，不能是纯粹的政策内容。如果某一条款被认定为政策内容，就会触发60票门槛。
共和党未能将《拯救美国法案》纳入党派资助法案
犹他州共和党参议员迈克·李一直牵头推动参议院审议《拯救美国法案》，该法案将在全国范围内联邦层面强制要求选民身份证。（奇普·索莫德维拉/盖蒂图片社）
包括肯尼迪在内的共和党人曾三次尝试将《拯救美国法案》或其版本纳入最新的和解法案。三次都达到了60票门槛，但除一次外均未获得50票支持。
俄亥俄州共和党参议员乔恩·赫斯特德是参议院中《拯救美国法案》的主要支持者之一，他表示自己“一直在想尽一切办法推动《拯救美国法案》获得通过”。
“我们目前正在研究一些能够符合和解程序标准的方案，”赫斯特德说，“但我无法确定我们能否成功，但我们应该尝试一下。”
这些替代方案可能与当前法案大相径庭，特朗普已经要求共和党对法案进行修改，加入与选举无关的政策内容，比如禁止跨性别男性参加女子体育赛事。
2026年6月10日，唐纳德·特朗普总统在华盛顿白宫椭圆形办公室发表讲话。（朱莉娅·德马雷·尼基森/美联社）
参议院中《拯救美国法案》的主要推动者、犹他州共和党参议员迈克·李承认，该法案“属于政策范畴，不涉及预算问题。因此，《拯救美国法案》本身不符合第三次和解程序的审议资格”。
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但他表示，让该法案至少部分内容符合《伯德规则》的一个可行途径是，为各州发放“强化真实身份证”提供资金，该证件可作为公民身份的证明。
随后，议员们可以通过一项脱离和解程序的单独法案，要求在联邦选举中登记投票时提供身份凭证。但与参议院共和党多数人一样，李也对第三次和解法案是否可行持怀疑态度。
“第二个原因是，从实际情况来看，我看不到有可行的途径推动第三次和解法案，”李说，“我希望有。我很希望自己错了。我希望我们能这么做。我认为我们应该这么做。但令我非常失望的是，我们现有的日程安排——根本没有办法容纳这一切。”
亚历克斯·米勒是福克斯新闻数字频道负责报道美国参议院的撰稿人。
Trump’s push to revive SAVE America Act runs into skepticism from its biggest backers
June 16, 2026 8:00am EDT / Fox News
Sen John Kennedy calls reconciliation ‘our only shot’ but says Republicans have burned too much time
By Alex Miller, Fox News
Senate Majority Leader John Thune addresses President Donald Trump’s call to fire the Senate parliamentarian, pass the SAVE America Act and more.
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President Donald Trump wants Republicans to include his long-sought voter ID and citizenship verification legislation into a party-line package, but even the bill’s strongest backers don’t think it’s possible.
Trump last week demanded that Republicans get to work on a third budget reconciliation package, cramming $350 billion in defense spending along with the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act into one bill.
Republicans, fresh off passing their second reconciliation package to fund immigration enforcement for the remainder of the Trump era, were lukewarm at best on doing the process again, especially with little time left before the fast-approaching midterm elections.
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Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., has argued a third budget reconciliation package is unlikely to materialize this year.(Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
But some see reconciliation, which would completely cut Democrats out of the process, as the only way to pass the SAVE America Act.
“It’s our only shot. It’s the only shot,” Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., said. “I just don’t think we have enough time. We burned a lot of time, and I’m not sure that we can agree on all the stuff to put in it. Not everybody is as easy to get along with as I am.”
The problems facing the legislation are two-pronged. Senate Democrats have vowed to block it on the floor, meaning any hope of hitting the 60-vote filibuster threshold is impossible — and not every Republican is on board with the bill.
“I support voter ID and support only American citizens voting, but Democrats are implacably opposed to it, and we don’t have enough Republicans to fill the gap,” Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said. “So we should move on and focus on winning the midterms instead of fighting each other.”
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Republicans have tried and failed several times now to pass the bill, even launching a quasi-floor takeover earlier this year to force debate on the matter.
Still, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., acknowledged that “we don’t have the vote.”
“Even if you confine it to just the two issues of photo ID and, you know, citizenship, in order to register to vote on those two issues, you take 60 votes in the Senate,” Thune said. “The only way you could get there is to undo or get rid of the legislative filibuster, and there aren’t even close to the votes here in the United States Senate in order to achieve that.”
Trying to put the bill into a reconciliation package, which can pass with a simple majority of votes, has its own issues beyond a vote count.
The process is governed by the Byrd Rule, which dictates broadly that any item in reconciliation has to have a direct budgetary impact and can’t be pure policy. If a provision is ruled as being policy, it triggers the 60-vote threshold.
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Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, has been leading the effort for the Senate to take up the SAVE America Act, which will federally require voter ID nationwide.(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Republicans, including Kennedy, tried three separate times to include the SAVE America Act — or versions of it — into the latest reconciliation package. All three hit the 60-vote mark, and all but one failed to hit 50 votes.
Sen. Jon Husted, R-Ohio, is one of the top backers of the SAVE America Act in the upper chamber and said that he has “been looking for every way possible to get the SAVE America Act passed.”
“And we are currently working on some options that could meet the standard to be part of the reconciliation process,” Husted said. “But I am in no way certain that we get it done, but we should try.”
Those alternatives would likely be quite different than what the current bill looks like, which Trump has already asked Republicans to revamp to include policy unrelated to elections, like barring biological men from participating in women’s sports.
President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on June 10, 2026.(Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP)
Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, the main driver of the SAVE America Act in the Senate, acknowledged that the bill was “policy, it’s non-budgetary. Therefore, SAVE America itself is not eligible for consideration in a third reconciliation.”
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But he said a plausible pathway to getting at least an aspect of the bill through the Byrd Rule would be providing funding for states to issue an “Enhanced Real ID,” which shows proof of citizenship.
Then, lawmakers could pass a separate bill outside of reconciliation that would require proof of identity to register to vote in federal elections. But Lee, like many in the Senate GOP, was skeptical that a third reconciliation bill would even be an option.
“The second reason is just, as a practical matter, I see no evidence that there is a viable path to a third reconciliation bill,” Lee said. “I hope there is. I would love to be wrong on that. I want us to do that. I think we should do that. But the schedule that we’ve got, to my great disappointment, is not — It doesn’t accommodate any of it.”
Alex Miller is a writer for Fox News Digital covering the U.S. Senate.
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