Trump Amplifies Mike Lee Call to Pass SAVE Act on Election Security
Trump reposts Utah Senator Mike Lee's plea for senators to end excuses and pass the SAVE America Act, framing citizenship verification for voting as a way to secure U.S. elections.
WASHINGTON D.C. — Donald J. Trump amplified a call from Utah Senator Mike Lee for the Senate to pass the SAVE America Act, a bill that would require documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections.
The SAVE Act, short for the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, passed the House but has stalled in the Senate, where it needs 60 votes to overcome a filibuster. Lee, a Republican elected to the Senate in 2010, urged colleagues to stop making excuses and act, a message Trump pushed to his followers. “It’s time for senators to stop making lame excuses and pass the SAVE America Act,” Lee wrote in the post Trump shared. “By securing our elections, we can—and will—truly save America. And we must!”
Here is the full post on truthsocial: “Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee): 9. It’s time for senators to stop making lame excuses and pass the SAVE America Act. By securing our elections, we can—and will—truly save America. And we must! Mike Lee 10. Please share this thread if you agree and follow if you’d like to see more posts like this one.” on July 28, 2026 at 9:44 AM ET.
This is Trump’s 7th message released today. On average, Trump produces 18 posts per day since his inauguration on January 20, 2025.
The move fits a broader pattern in Trump’s recent messaging, with 70 of his 473 posts over the last 30 days focused on elections.
The fight over the SAVE Act divides sharply along partisan lines. Supporters say the measure blocks noncitizens from casting ballots and restores confidence in the vote count. Opponents warn that millions of eligible citizens lack easy access to passports or birth certificates, and that mismatched documents could disenfranchise married women who changed their names.
Senator Mike Lee posted on Truth Social at Washington D.C. on 07/23/2026.
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Election administrators would carry the operational burden. State and county offices would need to verify citizenship documents for every new registrant, adding cost and staff time to a system already strained during peak registration periods before a general election.
For an average voter, passage would change the registration process. New registrants and those updating records would need to present a passport, birth certificate, or other qualifying document in person, rather than registering online or by mail with a signature and identification number.
This has happened before at the state level. Arizona enacted a proof-of-citizenship requirement in 2004, and the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2013 that the state could not impose the mandate on voters using the federal registration form, splitting registration into separate state and federal tracks. Kansas passed a similar law in 2011, and a federal court struck down the requirement in 2018 after finding that it blocked tens of thousands of eligible citizens.
The next decision rests with the Senate, where Majority Leader control determines whether the bill reaches a floor vote. A date for a Senate vote on the SAVE Act has not been announced.
Citizenship checks at the ballot box carry a long American lineage, as happened before in a different form. Literacy tests and poll taxes spread across Southern states after Reconstruction, with 11 states adopting poll taxes by the early 20th century according to britannica.com. Congress and the courts dismantled those barriers. The 24th Amendment banned poll taxes in federal elections in 1964, a reversal that reshaped ballot access for millions of voters once priced out.
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