The SAVE America Act before the Senate.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.7 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
On Tuesday, the Senate voted 51–48 to begin debate on the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, also known as the SAVE America Act. The bill would require citizens to present documentation confirming their citizenship when registering to vote and require photo identification to vote in federal elections. Tuesday’s vote formally initiates discussion of the bill on the Senate floor, a precursor to a potential final vote.
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| 0:00.0 | From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle. |
| 0:08.4 | This is Tangle. |
| 0:09.0 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, the place we get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. |
| 0:26.7 | I'm your host, Isaac Saul. And on today's episode, we're going to be talking about the Save America Act, a new voting rights, voting ID, voter election reform bill that is now before the Senate. They're going to |
| 0:42.2 | debate it. So we're going to talk a bit about what's happening, what's in the bill and our view, |
| 0:48.9 | or more specifically my view on it. Before we jump in, I want to give you a quick heads up that tomorrow |
| 0:53.9 | we're announcing |
| 0:55.1 | some changes to tangle, some language choice changes, some structural tweaks, some refined coverage |
| 1:01.1 | approaches, and our first ever moderation policy for the comments section on our website. |
| 1:09.0 | Pretty excited about all of this. I think it's going to be changes for the better. But keep an eye out or an ear out for the podcast and the newsletter, which will be dropping tomorrow. And unlike most Friday editions, we're going to be releasing them to everybody so you guys all know what's going on. It's going to be an interesting, good addition, I think, and I'm looking forward to it. |
| 1:27.8 | All right, with that, I'm going to send it over to John for today's main topic, and I'll be back for my take. |
| 1:38.6 | Thanks, Isaac, and welcome, everybody. |
| 1:40.8 | A quick note that this week we will not have our normal episode of |
| 1:44.2 | suspension of the rules. Instead, we are going to be releasing a two-part interview with Michael |
| 1:49.4 | Tracy and Tara Palmeri. That's going to come out later on this weekend and we'll have more |
| 1:53.5 | details in the coming days. All right, here are your quick hits for today. First up, Russia has |
| 1:59.0 | reportedly expanded its intelligence sharing and military |
| 2:01.6 | cooperation with Iran to assist its attacks on U.S. forces in the Middle East. Number two, the Israeli |
| 2:08.1 | military struck an Iranian natural gas processing facility, the first such strike in the current |
| 2:12.9 | conflict. U.S. officials confirmed that the Trump administration approved the strike. |
| 2:22.9 | Separately, President Donald Trump waived the Jones Act, a law requiring goods shipped between U.S. ports to be transported on ships that are U.S. built, owned, flagged, and crewed for 60 days. |
| 2:28.9 | The White House said the move is intended to mitigate the short-term disruptions to the oil market during the Iran War. |
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