How Trump's SAVE America Act would reshape voting and why critics are concerned
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🗓️ 11 March 2026
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| 0:00.0 | President Trump vowed this week not to sign any bills into law until a sweeping new voting bill is passed. |
| 0:07.7 | Our White House correspondent Liz Landers takes a closer look at its prospects. |
| 0:12.9 | Early Sunday morning, hours after returning from Delaware where he took part in the solemn observance of the return of remains of six U.S. soldiers killed, President Trump |
| 0:22.5 | posted about the Save America Act. |
| 0:25.3 | Quote, it supersedes everything else, he wrote, and, quote, must go to the front of the line. |
| 0:29.8 | I as president will not sign other bills until this is passed. |
| 0:33.2 | And perhaps most importantly, I'm asking you to approve the Save America Act. |
| 0:41.4 | If passed, the Safeguard American Voter eligibility, or Save America Act, would transform voting in this country in two major ways. |
| 0:50.0 | It would require all Americans to prove U.S. citizenship when registering to vote. |
| 0:54.5 | And it would require all voters to show an ID when voting in person or by mail. |
| 1:00.0 | Voters submitting absentee mail ballots would have to provide a photocopy of their ID. |
| 1:04.6 | The bill would also require states to frequently review voter rolls and remove any non-citizens. |
| 1:09.7 | And it would mandate states share voter registration |
| 1:12.1 | data with the federal government, which most states have refused to do a move backed by several |
| 1:17.6 | federal judges. We don't want people that aren't citizens of our country voting. We don't want people |
| 1:23.7 | that aren't studied and we don't want people that can't love our country voting in our |
| 1:28.4 | election. So it's very simple. But it's not that simple. By any definition, the number of ballots |
| 1:33.7 | cast illegally and by non-citizens in American elections is incredibly small. We know our elections |
| 1:39.6 | are more secure than ever. We know we have more protections and checks and balances against fraud than |
| 1:45.1 | ever. And we also know that this administration has gone out hunting for fraud with all of the |
| 1:49.1 | tools of the federal government over the last year. And they have found virtually none. |
| 1:54.2 | A study by the Trump administration's Department of Homeland Security found that of the 49.5 million |
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