Senate Republicans are still divided on using the talking filibuster for voter ID legislation as Senate Democrats vow to block the bill.

The prospects for President Donald Trump’s SAVE America Act grew murkier as divisions deepened among Senate Republicans about how to pass it.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) downplayed the conservative backlash he is facing over the SAVE America Act, chalking it up to a “paid influencer ecosystem” that is amplifying calls for its passage.

Election-year legislation to impose strict new proof-of-citizenship requirements on voting appears stalled in the Senate, for now, despite President Donald Trump's call in his State of the Union speech that Republicans in Congress pass the bill "before anything else.

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