Confirmed: The Four Anti-American RINOs Revealed Themselves by Opposing the SAVE America Act
There is a particular species of Republican senator whose entire political identity depends on the illusion of principled independence. They vote with the party often enough to retain the label, but they reliably surface at precisely those moments when the conservative base has something real on the line. Early Thursday morning, four of them showed their faces again, and nobody should pretend to be surprised.
Sens. Thom Tillis of North Carolina, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine, and Mitch McConnell of Kentucky joined every Senate Democrat to sink Sen. John Kennedy’s effort to attach a version of the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act to the GOP’s immigration enforcement funding package. The amendment failed 48 to 50. The vote confirmed what everyone who has been paying attention already knew. The names were not a mystery. They are the same four senators Majority Leader John Thune has spent months shielding from any vote that might expose them.
The SAVE America Act, in the form Kennedy pushed, would have directed the Senate Rules Committee to draft legislation requiring proof of citizenship to register and vote in federal elections, limiting voting to Election Day, mandating ballots be counted within 36 hours, and capping implementation at $10 billion. In other words, it would have done exactly what every honest poll of the American people shows they want.
Sens. Thom Tillis, Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, and Mitch McConnell joined Senate Democrats to kill Sen. John Kennedy’s attempt to attach the SAVE America Act to the GOP immigration enforcement funding bill.
The amendment failed 48-50 during the Senate’s overnight “vote-a-rama” process.
Kennedy’s version would have required proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections, limited voting to Election Day, mandated 36-hour ballot counting, and set a $10 billion implementation ceiling. (Read more from “Confirmed: The Four Anti-American RINOs Revealed Themselves by Opposing the SAVE America Act” HERE)
