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Senator urges full Homeland Security funding, defends Save America Act and backs Mullin confirmation
Summary
On the Senate floor a senator pressed for immediate funding for the Department of Homeland Security, defended the Save America Act’s affidavit-based citizenship checks, and said he voted to confirm Markwayne Mullin as DHS secretary while warning that states refusing to share voter data risk election integrity.
A senator speaking on the Senate floor urged colleagues to restore funding for the Department of Homeland Security and defended the Save America Act as a tool to help states verify voter eligibility.
The senator framed the issue as three linked priorities: confirming the president’s DHS nominee, funding the department after a prolonged lapse, and securing regular data-sharing from states into the SAVE (Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements) database to identify noncitizen registrations. “If you don’t enforce who may call themselves an American,” the senator said, “you can be neither a nation nor a nation of laws.”
Why it matters: The senator said gaps in funding have left many DHS employees unpaid and hindered operations across TSA, FEMA, the Coast Guard, USCIS and CISA. He argued that enabling DHS to access state voter-registration data would let election…
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