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@SenRandPaul Republicans make up stories to suppress the vote.

The SAVE Act is straightforward: prove citizenship, show an ID, and protect the integrity of our elections. This is about ensuring fair and secure elections for everyone. It’s just common sense. The Senate must pass the SAVE Act immediately.

@SenThomTillis If there is declining confidence in elections it’s because Republicans make up stories to suppress the vote.

I am one of the few members of Congress who has actually passed a voter ID law (on a bipartisan basis), which I did as Speaker of the House in North Carolina, and that’s why I proudly co-sponsored the SAVE Act. While I support strengthening mail-in ballot integrity, many states like Utah, Florida, Alaska, and Montana rely on the use of mail-in ballots to conduct their elections, and we should not be completely upending how states already securely conduct their elections. Even if this issue is fixed, the SAVE America Act still will not have the 60 votes required to pass it. While the so-called ‘talking filibuster’ has been floated as an option, there is a reason why previous attempts to utilize it in recent history have failed. A ‘talking filibuster’ would effectively make Chuck Schumer the new Senate Majority Leader, allowing Democrats to block every single Trump judge and executive branch nominee, and allow them to force endless votes on anything they want. Democrats would control the floor of the U.S. Senate until the end of the year. There are only two ways out of a ‘talking filibuster.’ The first is for Democrats to miraculously give up and allow Republicans to pass the bill with a simple majority. That is never going to happen, and anyone who claims it’s even a remote possibility is either completely misinformed or intentionally misleading the American people. The second way is for Republicans to substantially weaken or eliminate the filibuster altogether. I have made it crystal clear that I will never vote to do this. Eliminating the filibuster is a foolish and lazy idea pushed by politicians seeking short-term gain at the expense of causing irreparable long-term harm to our nation. Succeeding in eliminating the filibuster would significantly weaken the minority party, end the need for bipartisan compromise, and allow erratic swings in policy that would transform America for the worse. Those are just the consequences of a best-case outcome. During the last Congress, all of my Democratic colleagues currently serving supported nuking the filibuster to try to pass their own partisan election reform bill. Democrats were dead wrong to try to change the filibuster when they controlled the Senate, and Republicans would be dead wrong to try to change the filibuster now that we control the Senate. The only real path to address the American people’s declining confidence in our elections is for both parties to find common ground on legislation that supports universal adoption of voter ID, proof of citizenship, and other vital election integrity measures.

@SenBlumenthal Come on. Those people don’t have enough self-respect and dignity to keep their word.

I’ll hold Senator Mullin to his word that ICE agents will no longer be instructed to forcibly enter people’s homes without a judicial warrant.

@RapidResponse47 @SecScottBessent Oh wow, a whole two weeks worth.

.@SecScottBessent: In the coming days, we may unsanction the Iranian oil that's on the water. It's about 140 million barrels, so depending how you count it, that's 10 days to 2 weeks of supply, that the Iranians had been pushing out, that would have all gone to China. In essence, we'd be using the Iranian barrels against the Iranians to keep the price down for the next 10 or 14 days, as we continue this campaign. So, we have lots of levers.

@shanaka86 Summer travel season and the availability of fuel for jets and cruise ships.

Seven clocks are running. None of them negotiable. All of them counting down to the same weeks. The planting clock. Mid-April is the biological deadline for corn and soybean planting across the US Midwest. Every day that passes without nitrogen becoming affordable and available narrows the window for corn. USDA projects corn falling to 94 million acres from 98.8 million. Soybeans rising to 85 million from 81.2 million. The seeds that go into the ground in the next three weeks determine America’s grain harvest in October. The decision is irreversible. The USDA clock. March 31. Prospective Plantings. The report that converts farmer intentions into official data. Every acreage number, every corn-soy ratio, every nitrogen-dependent calculation becomes a published fact that traders, governments, and food agencies will use to model global supply for the next twelve months. The number arrives in twelve days. The FAO clock. April 3. The Food Price Index. The first global reading that captures post-Hormuz commodity prices across cereals, vegetable oils, dairy, meat, and sugar. The 2022 peak was 159.7 in March 2022 after Ukraine. This reading will incorporate oil above $100, urea at $610, LNG halted, packaging repriced, and freight surcharges of $500 to $1,500 per container. The number that determines whether the UN declares a food emergency arrives in fifteen days. The pharmaceutical clock. India’s API inventory buffers are two to three months, measured from the war’s onset on February 28. Late May is the depletion window. Methanol at 87.7 percent Hormuz exposure feeds the solvent chain for paracetamol, ibuprofen, metformin, and antibiotics. Once buffers deplete, the shortage becomes a patient access crisis for the 47 percent of US generics that originate in India. The China crude clock. FGE NexantECA confirmed China is drawing commercial reserves at up to one million barrels per day. The draw sustains refinery operations for four to six weeks from March 19. Mid-April to late April is the exhaustion window. After that, China faces three options: accelerate Russian pipeline imports, reroute at massive premium, or crack open the strategic petroleum reserve. The third option reprices every commodity on the planet. The helium clock. SK Hynix and Samsung hold two to three months of helium inventory. Late May to early June is the depletion window. South Korea imports 64.7 percent of its helium from Qatar. Ras Laffan is offline. If helium buffers deplete before alternative supply arrives, semiconductor fabrication faces rationing. The AI hardware supply chain hits a physical wall measured in months, not quarters. The insurance clock. Solvency II requires 30 to 60 days of zero incidents before P&I clubs can reinstate war risk coverage. Even after a ceasefire, the insurance normalisation takes six to sixteen months based on the Red Sea precedent of 26 months and counting. The logistics system lags the financial relief rally by the longest duration of any clock in this crisis. Seven clocks. The shortest expires in twelve days. The longest runs for over a year. The planting window, the USDA report, the FAO index, the drug buffers, the Chinese crude draw, the helium inventory, and the insurance cycle are all counting down simultaneously. None of them pause for diplomacy. None of them respond to presidential directives. None of them read sealed packets. The calendar is the only actor in this war that has never lost a negotiation. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

@OfTheBraveUSA One two three

Todd Blanche suggests that "unanswered questions" about the Epstein files are because of "a coverup by Biden."

@RepKeithSelf What do you have against American military personnel voting?

Leader Thune is keeping the Senate in session until the SAVE America Act will pass. Keep it up! We look forward to watching the Senate debate through the weekend. Keep calling your senators! Encourage this process as it moves toward passage of the SAVE America Act!

@SenRickScott The only way to save the country is to vote out GOP allies of the career criminal pedophile rapist in chief in the midterms. He is a fraud. You fraudsters stick together don’t you.

Pass the SAVE America Act to save our country! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

@SenateGOP x.com/amprog/status/…

In 19 states, illegal aliens can obtain a driver’s license without proof of citizenship.    In many of these states, this triggers automatic voter registration, throwing the door wide open for illegal aliens to vote.    The SAVE America Act puts an end to this.

@gtconway3d @richsignorelli Yep.

This is the quintessence of narcissistic sociopathy. And just plain stupidity.

@LeaderJohnThune x.com/senatedems/sta…

Only American citizens should be able to vote in American elections. This should be a straightforward issue, but the Democrats think otherwise.

@tedlieu @ablnk @WhiteHouse And how much of this was as the result of Russia assisting Iran by providing satellite imagery.

Dear @WhiteHouse: Instead of posting juvenile, amateur videos, you should explain to Congress and the American people how you plan to stop expensive radar sites from being struck by Iran.

New: Transportation industry money has been pouring into the congressional campaign of Michael Alfonso, a 26-year-old political unknown from Wisconsin whose father-in-law happens to be Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy. propub.li/4785NMs

@RepFine What have you got against women voting? What have you got against telling the truth?

I just sent a letter to Leader Thune with 24 of my Republican colleagues letting him know that until they pass the SAVE America Act, we will be voting NO on any Senate bills that come to the House floor.  Republicans made a promise to the American people to secure our elections.  President Trump is counting on us. It’s time for the Senate to deliver.

@bourscheid How’s this for slop — the ear, the pointy nose.

Netanyahu was killed March 8th. His Twitter-addicted son went from tweeting 40+ times per day to nothing for the same time as sitting shiva. Every “proof of life” video is clear AI slop. The US is fighting a zombie war now, with heads of state on both sides dead. Prove me wrong.

@LeaderJohnThune Your people.

There’s only one way to be sure that only Americans are voting in our elections: Voters have to prove they’re citizens when they register to vote. Passing this requirement should be a no-brainer, but Democrats roundly oppose this commonsense policy.

@clashreport Yeah we know what the administration thinks of Americans who are paying higher prices for gas.

White House on Iran: NATO allies benefit far more from the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz than the U.S. does.

@FBIDirectorKash @FBI Dude you fired FBI agents who had expertise on Iran. Your FBI can’t even find a kidnapping victim.

This @FBI stopped four terrorist attacks in December alone. Let good cops be cops — and they save American lives.

@ABC This is what happens when a career criminal/Russian asset/pedophile who cheats his way into the White House gets immunity.

In a rare public appearance, Chief Justice John Roberts on Tuesday addressed criticism of the Supreme Court, the federal judiciary and individual judges, saying, "personally directed hostility is dangerous, and it's got to stop." Read more: abcnews.link/K72omiJ