SAVE AMERICA ACT

On 2026-06-23, Senator Charles E. Schumer (D-NY) delivered a floor speech titled "SAVE AMERICA ACT" in the Senate.

SAVE AMERICA ACT

Congressional Record, Volume 172 Issue 105 (Tuesday, June 23, 2026) [Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 105 (Tuesday, June 23, 2026)] [Senate] [Page S3030] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [ www.gpo.gov ] SAVE AMERICA ACT Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, on the SAVE database, 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, a Federal 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 is illegal. Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Russel Vought wanted to plug Americans' sensitive, personal information, including Social Security information, into their shoddy database and have DOGE's algorithm decide who gets to vote. It is sci-fi voter suppression--authoritarianism by algorithm. Trump cares so little about Americans' freedom that he is trampling on their right to privacy just so he can take away their right to vote. For months, I have been saying this database was one of Trump's most sinister strategies for subverting our elections in November. That is 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 plan to rig the rules in November because in our country, Americans decide elections, not algorithms installed by Musk, DOGE, and Trump. ____________________