[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.

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