The SAVE Act in Congress, the bill to require proof of citizenship to vote
Overview · reviewed October 28, 2026
The SAVE Act, short for Safeguard American Voter Eligibility, is a Republican bill to require documentary proof of US citizenship to register to vote in federal elections, a top election priority of President Donald Trump.[1][2]The House voted on it in 2024 and passed it in April 2025, even as research shows noncitizen voting is rare, but the bill has met resistance in the Senate.[3][1][4] Trump's own orders on the issue are followed in a related arc.
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The House voted on it in 2024 and passed it in April 2025, even as research shows noncitizen voting is rare, but the bill has met resistance in the Senate.[3][1][4] Trump's own orders on the issue are followed in a related arc.
Coverage over time
Share of tracked outlets · monthly average of weekly shares (UTC)
4%0%
Jul 202420252026this month
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Each bar is the share of the outlets on our Left / Center / Right rating scale that we tracked publishing that week which carried reporting on this story, split by the outlets' ratings. Over more than two years each bar is a month: the average of that month's weekly shares, so the shape stays readable. The weekly table below keeps every week. We track more outlets now than in the archive, so a share keeps earlier and later weeks comparable. An outlet counts once a week however much it published, and outlets in one ownership or syndication group count as one on each side they appear on. A rating describes the outlet, not the report. A gap means no such reports were collected that week, not that nothing was reported anywhere. Weeks run Monday to Sunday in UTC, so a report published on a Sunday evening in US Eastern time counts in the next week. 1 more outlet off the scale (not rated, or outside the left-right graphs) also reported; they are not in this chart. See them.
Weekly counts, outlets and reports (7 weeks with coverage)
Outlets on the rating scale that carried this story each week, of the outlets tracked that week, newest first
Week of (UTC)
Left
Center
Right
Of tracked
Share
Receipts
Aug 10, 2026
0
0
5
5 of 545
1%
Aug 3, 2026
0
0
2
2 of 537
under 1%
Jul 20, 2026
6
14
10
30 of 562
5%
Jul 13, 2026
0
0
6
6 of 559
1%
Mar 2, 2026
2
1
5
8 of 175
5%
Apr 7, 2025
6
13
11
30 of 194
15%
Jul 8, 2024
5
4
7
16 of 184
9%
Latest coverage
The newest reporting in this story's record.
Aug 8, 2026 · first reported · Headline from Independent Journal Review
In 2024 House Republicans pushed the requirement as an election-year issue.[3] After the House passed the bill again in April 2025,[1] Trump in March 2026 threatened to withhold his signature from other legislation until Congress passed a version called the SAVE America Act.[5] In July his patience with Senate Majority Leader John Thune was said to be running out over the bill,[4] and Republicans seized on a video in which Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin said the measure would hurt her party,[2] while former Vice President Kamala Harris drew conservative criticism for warning that it would require Americans to "prove who you are."[6]
