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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer<\/a>, D-N.Y., vowed Sunday that Senate Democrats will block the latest GOP-backed effort to require proof of citizenship to vote.<\/p>\n

“We will not let it pass in the Senate,” Schumer told CNN\u2019s Jake Tapper. “We are fighting it tooth and nail. It’s an outrageous proposal that is, you know, that shows the sort of political bias of the MAGA right. They don’t want poor people to vote. They don’t want people of color to vote because they often don’t vote for them.”<\/p>\n

Schumer\u2019s comments came after Tapper pressed him on his opposition, noting that polling shows roughly 83% of Americans support some form of voter identification. That figure comes from a Pew Research poll<\/a> published last year that found 71% of Democratic voters surveyed supported presenting an ID to vote.<\/p>\n

COLLINS BOOSTS REPUBLICAN VOTER ID EFFORT, BUT WON\u2019T SCRAP FILIBUSTER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Still, Schumer and most Senate Democrats have criticized the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America<\/a> Act, which passed the House last week and is expected to face a vote in the Senate.<\/p>\n

The bill would require proof of citizenship to register to vote and would establish a system for state election officials to share information with federal authorities to verify voter rolls. It would also allow the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to pursue immigration cases if non-citizens are found listed as eligible voters.<\/p>\n

Schumer and his caucus have panned the bill as voter suppression targeting poorer Americans and minority groups.<\/p>\n

FETTERMAN SLAMS DEMOCRATS’ ‘JIM CROW 2.0’ VOTER ID RHETORIC AS PARTY UNITY FRACTURES<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“What they are proposing in this so-called SAVE Act is like Jim Crow 2.0,” Schumer said. “They make it so hard to get any kind of voter ID<\/a> that more than 20 million legitimate people, mainly poorer people and people of color, will not be able to vote under this law.”<\/p>\n

Without support from Senate Democrats \u2014 save for a possible defection from Sen. John Fetterman<\/a>, D-Pa. \u2014 the bill is likely to fail.<\/p>\n

The only way around that would be eliminating the Senate\u2019s 60-vote filibuster threshold \u2014 a move Republicans oppose \u2014 or forcing a so-called talking filibuster that could require hours of debate and stall other Senate business.<\/p>\n

HARDLINE CONSERVATIVES DOUBLE DOWN TO SAVE THE SAVE ACT<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Schumer also pushed back on comments from DHS Secretary Kristi Noem<\/a>, who earlier this week said elections “may be one of the most important things that we need to make sure we trust, is reliable, and that when it gets to Election Day that we’ve been proactive to make sure that we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country.”<\/p>\n

The comments come as Senate Democrats and the White House negotiate funding for DHS<\/a>, which has been shut down since midnight Friday.<\/p>\n

Part of those negotiations includes Democrats\u2019 demand that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents be kept away from several areas, including schools and polling places.<\/p>\n

“That’s a load of bull,” Schumer said. “They show no evidence of voter fraud<\/a>. They show there’s so little in the country. And to have ICE agents, these thugs, be by the polling places, that just flies in the face of how democracy works, of how we’ve had elections for hundreds of years, very successfully.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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