Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Tamara Keith. I cover the White House.

I'm Miles Parks. I cover voting. And I'm Barbara Sprint. I cover Congress.

Today on the show, President Trump says he won't sign any legislation until Congress passes the Save America Act.

The biggest thing coming up is the Save America Act.

The biggest thing coming up is a Save America Act in the Senate.

That's voter ID and proof of citizenship and no mail-in ballots, you know, corrupt mail-in ballots.

Senate Republicans narrowly voted yesterday to start debate on the bill, but its prospects for actually passing aren't great. Before we get to that, though, Miles, remind us what is in this

bill? It's really an overall Republican election overhaul. I mean, it would require photo ID for all voters across the

country to vote. But the biggest thing is that it would mandate that voters who want to register

to vote need to provide documentary proof of citizenship, which may not sound like a big deal.

The vast majority of Americans think only U.S. citizens should vote in American elections. But research

has shown that millions of Americans did not easily have access to the documents that this bill

would require to register to vote, notably a passport or a birth certificate. And those things

can be pretty expensive to acquire. And the president mentioned no mail in ballots. This is a thing

he talks about all the time. Also on his list for the bill is some stuff related to transgender athletes playing in sports and other issues related to the transgender community. Is that actually in the bill?

It's not currently. It's something that he's been pushing for. There's a bunch of other provisions, I should say. But in the version that was passed in the House of Representatives and is currently on schedule to be discussed by the Senate, it does not include any ban, nationwide ban on male voting or any of the transgender stuff he's mentioned. Barbara, what is the current state of this legislation?

Well, the Senate is in its second day of debate on the Save America Act.

And as you said yesterday, the chamber voted to take up the bill, bring it to debate.

That only needed a simple majority.

Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska joined Democrats

in voting against it. She has several concerns, including how to implement those ID

requirements that Miles was talking about, particularly in rural communities. And there are things that we

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