There was no mood or memorable moment. Nothing was done to mark the occasion. In fact, the death of the Save America Act went largely unnoticed.
At that time, I wrote on The Daily with Sarah Jones“The Senate voted on a budget resolution, which is the first step in the Republican Party’s plan to pass a skinny reconciliation bill to fund ICE and Border Patrol. A procedural vote on a budget resolution in itself is not important, but what that vote on the budget resolution came up against was very important. When Republicans in the Senate voted, they closed the door Trump’s SAVE America Act.”
The Save America Act was Trump’s legislative initiative that would have resulted in the end of mail-in voting and a massive voter purge across the country.
The legislation did not have the votes to pass the Senate. It has zero Democratic supporters in the Senate, and several Republicans oppose it.
Without the 60 votes needed for passage, Trump has demanded that Senate Republicans overturn the filibuster to pass his bill.
The problem is that support for abolishing the filibuster is small on the Republican side, and even if the filibuster were scrapped tomorrow, there wouldn’t be enough Republican support to pass the bill.
In other words, it’s dead.
A blue wave is coming, and Trump can’t stop it.
