There was no vote or momentous moment. Nothing was done to mark the occasion. In fact, the death of the Save America Act has gone largely unnoticed.
At the time, I wrote about The Daily with Sarah Jones“The Senate voted on a budget resolution, which is the first step in the GOP plan to pass a meager reconciliation bill to fund ICE and the Border Patrol. A procedural vote on a budget resolution in itself is not important, but what this budget resolution vote repelled was very important. When Senate Republicans voted, they closed the door to Trump’s SAVE America Act.»
The Save America Act was Trump’s legislative strategy that would have resulted in the end of mail-in voting and a mass purge of voters across the country.
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The bill did not get the votes needed to pass the Senate. It has no Democratic supporters in the Senate and several Republicans oppose it.
Without the 60 votes needed to pass it, Trump demanded that Senate Republicans override the filibuster to pass his bill.
The problem is that support for eliminating the filibuster on the Republican side is minimal, and even if the filibuster were abandoned tomorrow, there would not 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.