States Use Trump Administration Data System To Root Out Noncitizen Voters

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🗓️ 15 September 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

States have run more than 33 million voters through the Trump administration’s recently updated SAVE data system, which is designed to check citizenship status. We discuss how states are using the system and why some are steering clear of it.

This episode: White House correspondent Tamara Keith, power and influence reporter Jude Joffe-Block, and voting correspondent Miles Parks.

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