The Truth About The Senate’s Stalling Of The SAVE America Act
Federalist Radio Hour
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🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | And we are back with another edition of The Federalist Radio Hour. |
| 0:23.8 | I'm Matt Kittal's senior elections correspondent at The Federalist and your experience |
| 0:29.1 | Sherpa on today's quest for knowledge. |
| 0:32.0 | As always, you can email the show at Radio at the Federalist.com. |
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| 0:47.3 | Our guest today is Thomas Lane, America First Policy Institute's director of election integrity |
| 0:53.3 | and American Justice Campaign Director. |
| 0:57.4 | What's next for the Save Act? Now facing a perilous journey in the U.S. Senate. |
| 1:03.6 | That's what we're talking about. And Thomas, thank you so much for joining us on this edition |
| 1:08.0 | of the Federalist Radio Hour. Thanks for having me, Matt. |
| 1:11.4 | Great to be here. |
| 1:13.0 | Let me begin with this. |
| 1:19.1 | You know your way around this Congress, particularly the House and you know the power players in the Senate. |
| 1:20.6 | Talk me down here, Thomas. |
| 1:22.2 | I don't have a lot of faith in the Republican-controlled Senate that the Save America Act or its predecessor, |
| 1:31.7 | the Save Act, will actually come to a vote. But what's your thinking at this point? |
| 1:40.3 | Well, I think you have been through enough and we've all seen enough to have some skepticism |
| 1:45.5 | when it comes to any kind of 60 vote threshold in the Senate. I know Republicans get a lot of |
| 1:51.4 | blame, whether they have 53 or 52 or 51, depending on who you call a Republican, but obviously |
| 1:57.6 | not with that magic number of 60. So what's going to happen with a bill in the Senate, particularly the Same America Act, |
| 2:03.6 | which did pass the House 218 to 213 a couple days ago with all Republicans and one lone |
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