Marianne LeVine

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WSJ What’s News · What’s in the New Bipartisan Housing Bill That Congress Just Passed · 24 Jun 2026 podcast

So the Save America Act is a top priority for President Trump.

It would basically impose new voter eligibility rules, including proof of citizenship.

And this is something that the president really wants Senate Republicans to pass, but there basically are not enough votes to get rid of the filibuster and pass this legislation.

They really did not talk all that much about the Save America Act.

And the president apparently got into a very contentious disagreement with Senator Bill Cassidy, who voted to cancel.

convict him during the president's second impeachment.

He and Cassidy have had a very tense relationship.

But it seems like a lot of the focus of the meeting really was not about this bill.

It was really about the war in Iran.

And where does Iran fit into this?

The war in Iran has been a huge political...

question in the Senate, especially in terms of the impact the wars had on the midterms, in terms of gas prices, and this broader question of affordability.

The war in Iran was also very much on the president's mind because the Senate yesterday passed a war powers resolution that sought to restrict the president's authority on the war.

The president was unhappy about that vote, and that informed some of his own anger today.

It's hard to say.

I mean, the president is coming in in a pretty contentious moment in his relationship with Senate Republicans.

This is, I think, an encapsulation of broader tension that's been growing between the president and the Senate Republican caucus that we've seen.

And that's kind of spilling out in different ways, including this pressure to pass the SAVE Act.

And so there's been this frustration of asking why the president is so focused on

This bill that has no chance of passing.

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