The SAVE America Act, which would require US citizenship to register to vote and voter ID to be shown at the polls, is expected to go to the floor this week. The House version of the bill is sponsored by Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) and cosponsored by 71 lawmakers as of Feb. 6.
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) sponsored the Senate’s version of the bill, which has a total of 49 supporters. President Donald Trump hosted Lee, along with Sens. Rick Scott (R-FL) and Ron Johnson (R-WI) at the White House last week to work out a plan for passage.
“If the plan we discussed today works — and I believe it will, even though it won’t be easy — we’re going to Make Elections Great Again. Who’s ready to join the MEGA movement? If you are, share this post with the word ‘MEGA Trump.’”
The post garnered more than 460,000 views, 22,000 likes, 9,000 shares, and 2,000 comments.
Conservative political activist Scott Presler has been asking Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) to pass the SAVE America Act for more than a month. Appealing to his 2.5 million followers, Presler posted another rallying cry last week: “Once a day — every single day — we all need to be posting about the SAVE America Act.” He promised to knock on every representative’s door to whip more votes for the bill.
For his part, on Feb. 8, President Trump made another pitch for the SAVE America Act on Truth Social:
“America’s Elections are Rigged, Stolen, and a Laughingstock all over the World. We are either going to fix them, or we won’t have a Country any longer. I am asking all Republicans to fight for the following: SAVE AMERICA ACT!”
The president also discussed the bill in a sit-down interview with NBC, saying, “We need fair elections. We need elections where people aren't able to cheat. We’re going to do that. I'm going to do that. I’m going to get it done — and by the way, it polls [high], even with Democrats. They want that."
What Democrats Are Saying
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said on MS Now:
"It’s Jim Crow 2.0, and I called it Jim Crow 2.0, and the right wing went nuts all over the internet. That’s because they know it’s true. What they’re trying to do here is the same thing that was done in the South for decades, to prevent people of color from voting …This is vicious and nasty, and I said to our Republican colleagues, ‘It will not pass the Senate. You will not get a single Democratic vote in the Senate.’”
But at least two Democrat lawmakers see a reason for presenting identification. Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) told FOX’s Maria Baritoromo on Feb. 8:
“And now me as a Democrat, I do not believe that it’s unreasonable … to show ID just to vote. And I would remind everybody that less than a year ago in Wisconsin, you know, they added that to the constitution by a 63%, you know, passing, to put that in a constitution that you have to show ID to vote. And they also elected a very, very liberal justice into their Supreme Court. So, it’s not a radical idea for regular Americans to show your ID to vote. And it’s absolutely, those things are not Jim Crow or anything.”
Fetterman went on to say the SAVE America Act did not have enough votes to pass the Senate.
Presler wasted no time in asking Fetterman for his vote on X: “I’m talking to voters all across Pennsylvania & the overwhelming consensus is that your constituents support voter ID. Will you support the SAVE America Act & ensure that only Americans are voting in our elections?”
And while Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) opposes voter ID in federal elections, he reportedly demanded government-issued identification from those attending his campaign event on Feb. 7.
FOX News Channel reported confirmation emails for an Ossoff rally in Atlanta stated, "a matching government-issued ID will be verified against the RSVP list by name to enter."
But, last March, Ossoff wrote on Facebook: “Sen. Ossoff on the SAVE Act: ‘This is a nakedly partisan, totally unworkable, bad faith bill cynically intended to disenfranchise millions of eligible voters.’”
Bipartisan Support for SAVE America Act
By contrast, most Americans overwhelmingly support voter ID across all demographics and both political parties. CNN reported last week on Pew Research Center polling in 2025. The number of Americans supporting voter ID has been rising, from 76% in 2018 to 83% in 2025. The numbers show 71% of Democrats and 95% of Republicans support voter ID, as do 85% of White Americans, 82% of Latino Americans, and 76% of Black Americans.
Rapper Nicki Minaj also is speaking out in support of the SAVE America Act, and many of her fans are reportedly changing their voter registration to Republican. After she appeared with Trump and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent at a January summit to promote Trump accounts for newborns, Minaj pledged her own money to fund the accounts for her fans and appeared in two short videos. In one, she praised Trump as “her favorite president” and appeared rapping with Bessent in the second. Presler and Turning Point Action Chief Operating Officer Tyler Bowyer have both posted on X their offers to help Minaj’s fans register to vote.
Lee and Elon Musk reposted on X a 2024 interview Musk did with Tucker Carlson, in which he discussed voter ID:
“The purpose of not voter ID is obviously to conduct fraud in elections, obviously … Their common rebuttal is like it’s racist to require ID, which is insane. I think it’s actually racist and patronizing to say that people can’t figure out how to get ID, obviously…You need ID for everything, like the list of the things you need ID for is basically everything, except voting.”
That will change if the SAVE America Act passes the Senate and gets to President Trump’s desk.
