Republicans have tried and failed to pass the SAVE Act multiple times. The latest iteration suggested numerous amendments to the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, including line items that would have abolished mail-in voting, required voters to bring proof of citizenship and proof of residency to register to vote, required voter ID, and mandated voter roll purges every 30 days\u2014an enormous bureaucratic task that would have placed undue burdens on local election officials.<\/p>\n
Nonetheless, Trump demanded that his caucus figure it out. In March, Trump insisted that the bill would \u201cguarantee the midterms,\u201d and that there would be \u201cbig trouble\u201d if Republicans failed to force it through Congress. The president also said that the SAVE Act was such a tremendous priority that it \u201csupersedes everything else,\u201d threatening to veto all other bills until the SAVE Act made it to his desk.<\/p>\n