Schumer warns that conservation law passed by House Republicans in funding deal is dead on arrival
House Republicans want to emerge from the current spending battle with a victory of sorts, despite the president Donald Trump Take the initiative and negotiate a temporary funding truce with Schumer and Senate Democrats.
They are demanding that the five-bill funding package, which stripped the controversial Department of Homeland Security spending bill in favor of a two-week funding extension, also include the American Voter Eligibility Protection Act revamped by House Republicans, dubbed the Save America Act.
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., criticized House Republicans’ demands to include voter ID legislation in the Trump-backed funding deal. (Kevin Deitch/Getty Images)
But doing so is a bridge too far for Schumer. The Senate’s top Democrat said the legislation, which has been on the shelf in the House for months, is “reminiscent of Jim Crow-era laws” and would serve as a means of voter suppression rather than promoting safer elections.
“I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, the SAVE Act would impose Jim Crow-type laws on the entire country and be gone when it reaches the Senate,” Schumer said in a statement.
He continued: “It is a poison pill that will kill any legislation related to it. If House Republicans add the SAVES Act to the bipartisan appropriations package, it will shut down the Trump government for another long period.”
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Rep. Ana Paulina Luna, Republican of Florida, speaks to members of the media outside the House Republican Conference meeting at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, September 3, 2025. (Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Updated version of Conservation law It requires that people provide photo ID before voting, and that states obtain proof of citizenship in person when people register to vote and remove noncitizens from voter rolls.
Rep. Ana Paulina Luna, R-Fla., who is leading the effort to tie voter ID legislation to the funding package, responded to Schumer’s accusations in a post on X.
“If you are in the minority that wants voter ID, then you clearly support racist policies according to Schumer,” she said.
Schumer’s decree addresses the reality of the partisan division in the Senate and the nature of passing any legislation in most cases. For the SAVE Act to become law, it must receive at least 60 votes in the Senate. Given Senate Democrats’ disdain for the bill, this is unlikely.
Rep. Steve Scalise, House Speaker Mike Johnson and Rep. Tom Cole appear during a news conference in Washington on October 8, 2025. (Valerie Blish/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Adding the bill would further discourage House Democrats, who are already wary of the deal. Speaker of the House of Representatives mike johnson, The Los Angeles Republican may need their support given the mounting anger at his convention.
Complicating matters further is that if the amended package with the SAVE Act were to make it out of the House, it would have to return to the Senate, creating a virtual ping-pong game between the two chambers as it was meant to be. Partial government shutdown in the short term It continues.
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However, House Republicans are not backing down on their demands and have support in the Senate from Sens. Rick Scott, R-Fla., and Mike Lee, R-Utah, co-sponsor of the updated SAVE Act.
“House Republicans should not let Schumer dictate the terms of government funding,” Rep. Eric Burleson, R-Missouri, said on X. “If Democrats want to play games, no spending package should come out of the House without a savings bill attached — securing America’s elections should be a non-negotiable.”
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