Leader Schumer To Trump & Republicans: Abandon The SAVE Act, It’s Dead On Arrival

Washington, D.C. - Today, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) spoke on the Senate floor urging Trump and Republicans to abandon their radical plan to disenfranchise voters with the SAVE Act, a measure dangerously reminiscent of Jim Crow era voter suppression laws, which has repeatedly failed in the courts and will be dead on arrival in the US Senate. Below are Senator Schumer's remarks, which can also be viewed here:

Republicans keep screwing around in reconciliation with Trump's voter suppression [legislation, the] SAVE Act. Republicans should know by now that it ain't gonna fly with us, with the courts, or with the American people.

I'll say it as many times as it takes: the SAVE Act is dead on arrival here in the Senate.

I don't care how Republicans try to package their plan to resurrect the old ghost of Jim Crow - we will kill it.

Trump's blatant effort to strip Americans of their voting rights is withering in the courts too.

Yesterday, just yesterday, Trump lost his 14^th and 15^th cases trying to demand state voter rolls.

Hey Donald, what you're doing is illegal and unconstitutional, and the courts are making that very clear.

Right-wing Republicans like the Senator from Utah can bluster all they want, but the SAVE Act is not going to become law.

Trump will have to face all the voters - not just the ones he wants in November

The mess Republicans find themselves in right now won't go away until they realize just how futile this effort to disenfranchise millions of Americans is.

Instead, Trump has bragged on national TV that he plans to force a shutdown if he doesn't get his way on the SAVE Act.

Trump said: "Republicans have to [pass SAVE]…otherwise we're going to have a shutdown in. November "

Hear that Republicans? Donald Trump - you hear that Americans? You hear that voters? Trump says he's going to shut down the government to take away Americans' voting rights - are Republicans going to go along with that? I remind Donald again, as I did yesterday, last time you bragged about shutting down the government with Nancy [Pelosi] and me in the Oval Office, didn't come out too good for you Donald, this one will come out even worse.

So I hope Republicans hear this: Trump says he's going to shut down the government so he can take away Americans' voting rights. How do you think that's going to go over in this country? Democrats aren't saying they want a shut down; Trump is.

Republicans ought to do themselves a favor and bury the SAVE Act once and for all.

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