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凯特琳·伊莱克是哥伦比亚广播公司新闻网驻华盛顿特区的政治记者。她曾供职于《华盛顿考察家报》和《国会山报》，并入选美国国家新闻基金会2022年保罗·米勒华盛顿报道奖学金项目。
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华盛顿——总统特朗普与众议院保守派议员正挟持国会，施压参议院共和党人通过一项名为《拯救美国法案》的选举监管法案。
特朗普周三突然取消了一项两党在参众两院均获压倒性支持的标志性住房负担能力法案的签署仪式，再次试图将无关立法作为政治筹码，迫使国会通过颇具争议的选举要求，比如出示公民身份证明以及限制邮寄选票。
众议院此前通过了该法案的非全面版本，得到了少数民主党议员的支持。但此后特朗普要求加入其他共和党优先议题，比如禁止邮寄选票以及跨性别运动员参加女子体育赛事的条款。参议院共和党领袖多次表示，该法案无法获得通过所需的60票门槛支持，无法在参议院推进。
但这并未阻止特朗普的尝试。他今年早些时候威胁称，除非国会通过《拯救美国法案》，否则不会签署其他多数法案。本月早些时候，特朗普拒绝重新授权一项无证监视权限——该权限是他每日安全简报中大部分情报的来源——除非将该选举法案附加其中。该权限至今仍未获得重新授权。
周三，就在他即将签署一项数十年来首部全面住房负担能力法案的数小时前——此时住房问题正是众多美国人最关心的议题——特朗普再次要求优先推进《拯救美国法案》。他表示，除非议员们通过他的这项政治宠儿提案，否则不会将住房法案签署为法律。
在保守派的支持下，特朗普要求参议院多数党领袖约翰·图恩争取到足够票数通过该法案，或修改参议院规则以达成目标。但来自南达科他州的共和党人图恩明确表示，参议院共和党人也不会支持修改规则这一选项。尽管如此，共和党领袖仍试图回应保守派的诉求，包括今年早些时候就该法案进行马拉松式的全院辩论，给议员们机会阐述各自立场。
“正如你所知，我们多次表明我们没有足够票数。但显然他并不希望我们得出这个结论，”图恩周三说道。
阿拉斯加州共和党参议员丽莎·穆尔科斯基重申了这一观点，并认为特朗普的坚持只会阻碍他自己的议程。
“如果他因为想要在《拯救美国法案》上有所作为而搁置自己的议程，我想那是他的选择。但这对他毫无帮助，”她周三说道。“这毫无进展。先生，如果你没有足够票数，那就是没有足够票数。”
众议院议长迈克·约翰逊周四下午在白宫与特朗普会面，讨论后续推进路径。在离开美国国会大厦前，这位路易斯安那州共和党人表示，他期待这场关于“如何重新推动议程”的会议“富有成效”。
周四上午的新闻发布会上，众议院保守派自由核心小组的成员们抨击参议院休会至7月13日，而非留在华盛顿为特朗普的首要立法优先事项寻找解决方案。参议院原计划接下来两周休假，并提前一天开始假期。
“参议院太糟糕了，”佛罗里达州共和党众议员拜伦·唐纳兹说道。
宾夕法尼亚州共和党众议员斯科特·佩里要求参议院恢复工作，并表示众议院议员们将留在华盛顿“尽一切所能”推动该法案送达特朗普面前。
“我们已经完成了自己的工作，但如果还有更多事情要做，上帝保佑，我们会留下来，哪怕苦熬，”他说道。
讲话结束后不久，众议院共和党领导层取消了周五的投票，并宣布周四下午仅举行一场投票。众议院目前计划下周大部分时间都处于议事状态，随后从7月3日至7月13日休会。
但由佛罗里达州共和党众议员安娜·保利娜·卢纳领导的保守派议员实际上已暂停了众议院全院的立法行动，除非《拯救美国法案》在参议院获得通过。凭借微弱的多数优势，众议院共和党领导层需要几乎所有本党议员在党派程序性投票中团结一致，才能推进其立法议程。
“在我看来，在这项法案通过之前，我不想对任何其他法案投赞成票，”南卡罗来纳州共和党众议员拉尔夫·诺曼周四说道。“我不会为任何其他法案投票。”
“有人说我们可以通过预算协调程序纳入《拯救美国法案》——这根本行不通，”卢纳说道。
本届国会期间，共和党已两次利用预算协调程序以党派票数通过立法。该程序允许多数党无需跨党派支持，便可通过具有直接预算影响的立法，将参议院通常需要的60票门槛降至简单多数即可推进。但该程序有严格要求，多名共和党人对利用该策略通过选举法案的可能性表示怀疑。
卢纳敦促约翰逊 instead 将该选举监管法案附加到《国防授权法案》或特朗普此前提及的关键间谍权限延期法案——即《外国情报监控法》第702条——之上。
约翰逊表示，他认为《拯救美国法案》的最佳推进路径是将其附加到第三份预算协调法案中。周三，他提议设立一个与协调程序挂钩的“拨款项目”，供各州利用以落实选举相关条款。
德克萨斯州共和党众议员奇普·罗伊表示，他对“缩水版法案”不感兴趣，并怀疑如果将选举法案附加到党派支出法案中，其结果会比当前情况更好。
“我们需要完整通过《拯救美国法案》，”罗伊说道。
总统似乎也对这一想法不屑一顾。周三被问及是否会接受通过协调程序纳入《拯救美国法案》的相关条款时，特朗普回应道：“不太会，不会。”
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Trump’s obsession with SAVE America Act drives Congress into a standoff
2026-06-25T15:17:00-0400 / CBS News
By Caitlin Yilek Politics Reporter
Caitlin Yilek is a politics reporter at CBSNews.com, based in Washington, D.C. She previously worked for the Washington Examiner and The Hill, and was a member of the 2022 Paul Miller Washington Reporting Fellowship with the National Press Foundation.
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Washington — President Trump and House conservatives are holding Congress hostage over Senate Republicans’ inability to pass a voting regulations bill known as the SAVE America Act.
Mr. Trump abruptly canceled a signing ceremony Wednesday for a landmark housing affordability bill that has overwhelming bipartisan support in both chambers, seeking once again to use unrelated legislation as political leverage in his push to get Congress to adopt controversial voting requirements, such as showing proof of citizenship and restrictions on mail-in ballots.
The House has passed earlier versions of the bill that aren’t as sweeping, with support from a handful of Democrats. But the president has since requested to add other Republican priorities, like bans on mail-in voting and transgender athletes’ participation in women’s sports. Senate Republican leaders have repeatedly said the bill does not have the support to reach the 60-vote threshold to advance in the upper chamber.
That hasn’t stopped the president from trying. He threatened earlier this year not to sign most other bills until Congress passed the SAVE America Act. Earlier this month, Mr. Trump refused to reauthorize a warrantless surveillance authority that is the source of the bulk of the intelligence in his daily security briefing unless the election bill was attached. It still has not been reauthorized.
And on Wednesday, hours before he was set to sign a bill that marked the first comprehensive housing affordability legislation in decades — a bill that came as the issue is top of mind for many Americans — the president again demanded that the SAVE America Act be prioritized. He said he would not sign the housing legislation into law until lawmakers pass his political pet project.
Backed by conservatives, Mr. Trump has demanded that Senate Majority Leader John Thune find the votes to pass the legislation, or change the Senate’s rules to make it happen. But Thune, a South Dakota Republican, has made it clear that Senate Republicans won’t support that option either. Still, GOP leaders have tried to address interest from conservatives, including by allowing a marathon floor debate on the measure earlier this year aimed at giving members a chance to make their case.
“We’ve made the point a number of times, as you know, that we don’t have the votes. But that’s not a conclusion obviously he would like to see us draw,” Thune said Wednesday.
GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska reiterated the point and argued the president’s insistence is only obstructing his own agenda.
“If he chooses to hold up his own agenda because he wants action on the SAVE Act, that’s, I guess, his call. It is not helpful to him,” she said Wednesday. “It’s not moving the needle. If you don’t have the votes, sir, you don’t have the votes.”
House Speaker Mike Johnson was meeting with Mr. Trump at the White House on Thursday afternoon about the path forward. Before leaving the U.S. Capitol, the Louisiana Republican said he expected a “productive” meeting about “how to get the agenda moving again.”
In a news conference Thursday morning, members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus railed against the Senate for recessing until July 13, instead of staying in Washington to find a path forward on one of Mr. Trump’s top legislative priorities. The Senate was previously scheduled to be off the next two weeks and left a day early for the break.
“The Senate sucks,” said GOP Rep. Byron Donalds of Florida.
GOP Rep. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania demanded that the Senate return to work, saying they would stay in town “and do whatever it takes” to get the legislation to Mr. Trump’s desk.
“We have done our job, but if there’s more to do, God bless it, we will stay and suffer through it,” he said.
Shortly after the remarks, House GOP leadership canceled Friday votes and announced just one vote Thursday afternoon. The House is currently scheduled to be in session for most of next week and then on break from July 3 until July 13.
But conservatives, led by GOP Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, have effectively shut down legislative action on the House floor until the SAVE America Act passes the Senate. With their narrow majority, House GOP leaders need nearly all of their members to stick together in party-line procedural votes to advance their legislation.
“From my standpoint, I don’t want to vote on anything else until this is passed,” GOP Rep. Ralph Norman of South Carolina said Thursday. “I’m not voting for anything.”
“The fact that they’re trying to say that we can put the SAVE America Act in reconciliation — it cannot be done,” Luna said.
Republicans have used the budget reconciliation process twice in this Congress to approve party-line legislation. The process allows the party in the majority to approve legislation with direct budgetary consequences without support from across the aisle, lowering the Senate’s typical 60-vote threshold to a simple majority to advance. But the process has strict requirements, and a number of Republicans have cast doubt on the ability to use the maneuver to approve the elections legislation.
Luna has urged Johnson instead to attach the voting regulations bill to the National Defense Authorization Act or an extension of a key spy authority known as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which Mr. Trump previously suggested.
Johnson said he believes the best path forward for the SAVE America Act is attaching it to a third budget reconciliation bill. On Wednesday, he pitched the creation of a “grant program” tied to reconciliation that states could draw from to implement elections provisions.
GOP Rep. Chip Roy of Texas said he’s not interested in “a watered-down version” and was doubtful that the elections measure would see a different outcome than its current fortune if attached to a party-line spending bill.
“We need the entirety of the SAVE America Act passed,” Roy said.
And the president also seemed to dismiss the idea. Asked Wednesday whether he would be open to provisions of the SAVE America Act in a reconciliation measure, Mr. Trump responded, “Not really, no.”
Ibrahim Aksoy contributed to this report.
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