Leader Schumer Floor Remarks On The Federal Court Blocking Donald Trump’s Sinister Voter Database Purge

Washington, D.C. - Today, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) spoke on the Senate floor celebrating a federal court ruling that blocked the Trump administration's unlawful voter database purge. Below are Senator Schumer's remarks, which can also be viewed here:

Yesterday's court decision bodes very poorly for the SAVE Act's survival.

Free and fair elections in America got a big boost in court yesterday when a judge blocked Donald Trump's effort to set up a massive voter purge database. The absolute last person Americans want combing through their personal data is Donald Trump. Letting Trump scrape through Americans' private data to purge them from the voter rolls isn't just unpopular - it's illegal. Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Russell Vought wanted to plug in Americans' sensitive personal information, including social security information, into their shoddy database and have DOGE's algorithm decide who gets to vote.

It's sci-fi voter suppression - authoritarianism by algorithm.

Trump cares so little about Americans' freedom that he's trampling on their right to privacy just so he can take away their right to vote.

For months, I've been saying this database was one of Trump's most sinister strategies for subverting our elections in November.

That's why Senate Democrats have blocked the SAVE Act - Trump's extreme anti-election legislation - over and over and over again.

Democrats will keep fighting Trump's plans to rig the rules in November, because in our country Americans decide elections - not algorithms.

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