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Reporter’s Notebook: GOP’s ‘favorite bill’ faces reality check as Senate stalls on SAVE America Act
Democrats block GOP push to split DHS funding bill
Fox News chief congressional correspondent Chad Pergram reports on the Senate’s failure to reach a Homeland Security funding deal as Republicans accuse Democrats of moving the ‘goalposts’ on ‘Special Report.’
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Parents won’t admit that they have a favorite child.
But they do.
The same is true with lawmakers.
They won’t admit they have a favorite bill.
But they do.
That’s why the SAVE America Act is the favorite bill of Senate Republicans.
Until it isn’t.
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Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, talks with a guest during an «Only Citizens Vote Bus Tour» rally in Upper Senate Park to urge Congress to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images)
At some point, lawmakers will forge a deal to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). It could be today. Tomorrow. A week. A month. But it will happen. And until then, the Senate likely squats on the SAVE America Act, which requires proof of citizenship to vote.
The Senate is stalled here, partly because it lacks anything else to do. But mostly because the SAVE America Act is the «favorite child» of Republican senators — for now. It’s good optics for the Senate to look like it’s working on the hallmark of President Trump’s legislative agenda — even if it has no viable path to passage.
And when the Senate eventually secures that DHS agreement, it will likely ditch its favorite child. The DHS bill will quickly matriculate in status to Republican senators.
It’s not that GOP senators loved the SAVE America Act less. But that they loved funding DHS more.
So why wouldn’t the Senate quickly revert to the SAVE America Act as soon as it passes DHS funding? Well, that’s because senators will acquire another favorite child: congressional recess. That’s right. If there’s a DHS deal, lawmakers will abandon Washington for about two weeks to observe Easter and Passover.
Senators will wrestle with the SAVE America Act again down the road. But the measure is likely relegated to the island of misfit toys for legislation. Something called «budget reconciliation.»
More on that in a moment.
Yes. Republicans relish talking about the importance of voter ID and securing elections so persons illegally in the country can’t cast ballots. But if enough Republicans really liked the SAVE America Act, they’d have the votes to pass the measure.
The Senate has incinerated more than a week of debate on the SAVE America Act. Republicans have little to show for their efforts. That is, unless you include the Senate blocking a proposed amendment to bar men from competing in women’s sports. That test vote secured a paltry 49 yeas Saturday afternoon.
Everyone has known where the vote count stands on this for weeks now.
«I’m telling you, the SAVE (America) Act is not going to pass,» said Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill. «They have to change the rules of the Senate for that to happen.»
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Sen. Dick Durbin, a Democrat from Illinois, during a news conference outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, June 5, 2025 (Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
And, for the record, the Senate lacks the votes to alter the rules, too.
It’s not that Republicans didn’t embrace the SAVE America Act. It’s just that lines at the airports and the risk of terrorism worry them.
The SAVE America Act has emerged as a messaging exercise for Senate Republicans. They can get Democrats on the record about opposing bans on men in women’s sports and voter ID. The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) — the panel charged with electing GOPers to the Senate — is more than happy to document Democrats via a roll call vote how they feel about those subjects. However, the GOP simply lacks the votes to pass the bill.
Moreover, there is finally an opportunity to end the protracted government shutdown. There are only so many exits on the legislative interstate. You have to be able to read a map. Republicans don’t want to miss this exit. The limited interstate exits also apply to opportunities for congressional recesses.
Republicans are about to punt more than Ray Guy.
«We have had this battle now for two weeks,» said Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., on Fox. «This is going to continue after we get back. After the Easter break.»
Some advocates of the bill promise they won’t retreat.
«We’re busting our butt to do what the public wants us to do. We’ve got to secure our elections,» said Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla.
«Then why haven’t we seen a 25-hour speech, [Sen.] Cory Booker [D-N.J.] style, by somebody to keep the Senate in session around the clock?» asked yours truly.
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Democratic Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey is interviewed by Fox News Digital at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics, in Manchester, N.H., on Nov. 14, 2025 (Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)
«I think we ought to do everything we can,» replied Scott.
Some Republicans say their side raised expectations too high.
«I think anytime you promise something you can’t possibly deliver, you’ve got to be held accountable,» said Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C. «It’s disingenuous to go out to the people and say ‘I’m fighting for you’ when you haven’t even entered the ring.»
So Republicans will try to shoehorn every possible component of the SAVE America Act into a «budget reconciliation» bill later this year. «Try» is the key word. Budget reconciliation is a special process, inoculated from a filibuster and only needs a simple majority to pass. Sounds great, right? But budget reconciliation is an elite Senate process for only money and tax matters. Not policy, like voter ID. And voter ID could be a target of the Senate’s umpire — Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough — if GOPers try to stuff it in that bill.
«Budget reconciliation, as I’ve said before, you have to have a reason to do it,» said Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D. «Obviously the parliamentarian has a role to play in that process. And in the past we have respected it. And I would expect we would do that.»
If they’re being honest, few Republicans think budget reconciliation is feasible to salvage parts of the SAVE America Act.
«I don’t think under reconciliation we’re going to be able to pass voter ID,» said Senate Budget Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.
«The SAVE America act is not reconcilable,» said House Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Harris, R-Md. «It will never fly past the parliamentarian because it really is predominantly a policy issue.»
«This is fake,» said Rep. Warren Davidson, R-Ohio, about any wing-and-a-prayer effort to wedge the SAVE America Act into budget reconciliation. «It isn’t going to work.»
«A talking filibuster is the most obvious and the most sure way of getting this thing passed,» said Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas. «This reconciliation is not an out for the Senate. They need to do their job and get this bill passed.»
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Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, leaves the House Republican Conference caucus meeting in the Capitol on Tuesday, May 6, 2025. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images)
But Senate Republicans haven’t shown a willingness to hold the Senate in session until they wear down their opponents and pass the bill via a lengthy talking filibuster. Staying on the bill for now is a parliamentary convenience. Especially after the weekend vote on men playing women’s sports.
The Senate will eventually move on. And senators will eventually embrace yet another favorite legislative child.
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Zelenskyy claims US tied Ukraine security guarantees to giving up Donbas, White House denies
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U.S. security guarantees for Ukraine are being tied to Kyiv ceding the eastern Donbas region to Russia as part of a potential peace deal, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told Reuters in an interview published Thursday.
«The Americans are prepared to finalize these guarantees at a high level once Ukraine is ready to withdraw from Donbas,» Zelenskyy said, describing a proposal he warned could undermine both Ukraine’s defenses and broader European security.
But a U.S. official, speaking on background, told Fox News Digital the claim is false.
Zelenskyy’s comments point to growing pressure from President Donald Trump to reach a swift end to the war, now in its fourth year following Russia’s 2022 invasion.
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Zelenskyy suggested the administration’s approach is influenced in part by competing global crises, including the ongoing conflict involving Iran.
U.S. security guarantees for Ukraine are being tied to Kyiv ceding the eastern Donbas region to Russia as part of a potential peace deal, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. (Pavlo Bahmut/Ukrinform/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
«The Middle East definitely has an impact on President Trump,» Zelenskyy said. «President Trump, unfortunately, in my opinion, still chooses a strategy of putting more pressure on the Ukrainian side.»
Talks between the United States, Russia and Ukraine have taken place in Abu Dhabi and Geneva in 2026, but key issues remain unresolved, including how Ukraine’s future security would be guaranteed and who would fund its long-term defense.
Zelenskyy warned that abandoning Donbas would hand Russia heavily fortified Ukrainian defensive lines, weakening Kyiv’s position and potentially enabling future aggression.
«I would very much like the American side to understand that the eastern part of our country is part of our security guarantees,» he said.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that abandoning Donbas would hand Russia heavily fortified Ukrainian defensive lines. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Russian President Vladimir Putin has long insisted that full control of Donbas is central to Moscow’s war aims. While Russian forces have made gains, analysts cited by Reuters say progress has been slow, and capturing the remaining territory could take significant time and manpower.
Zelenskyy also warned that Moscow is betting Washington will lose interest if negotiations stall.
«Russia is counting on the fact that the United States will not have the strength or patience to bring this to an end,» he said.
Despite tensions over negotiations, Zelenskyy thanked the Trump administration for continuing deliveries of Patriot missile defense systems, which Ukraine relies on to intercept Russian ballistic missiles.
«Deliveries to us were not stopped. I’m very grateful to President Trump, and to his team,» he said, while adding that supplies remain insufficient.
In parallel with the diplomatic push, Zelenskyy signaled a broader strategy to expand Ukraine’s role as a security provider, particularly in the Middle East, where countries are seeking solutions to large-scale drone and missile threats.
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A cemetery worker prepares a burial vault at military cemetery outside of the city of Dnipro, Ukraine, May 25, 2023. (Seth Herald/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
«The United States has reached out to us regarding their bases in Middle Eastern countries,» Zelenskyy wrote on X Thursday, adding that Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Jordan and Kuwait have also approached Ukraine.
He said Ukrainian teams are already on the ground sharing operational experience, particularly in countering mass drone attacks.
«No matter how many Patriots, THAADs, or other air defense systems are in the Middle East, that alone is not enough,» he wrote. «There are modern interceptors designed to counter heavy drone strikes.»
Zelenskyy also indicated Ukraine is exploring defense trade arrangements, offering to sell surplus systems and expertise while seeking access to air defense missiles it currently lacks.
«Funding is the scarcest resource today,» he wrote, noting Ukraine’s defense industry is operating at roughly half capacity and needs additional financing to scale drone production.
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Ukraine is exploring defense trade arrangements, the country’s president said. (Iryna Rybakova/Press Service of the 93rd Kholodnyi Yar Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces/Reuters)
In separate posts tied to an address at a Joint Expeditionary Force summit, Zelenskyy emphasized that Ukraine’s battlefield experience could play a broader role in European and global security.
«We have this experience. … Let’s bring all of this together even more,» he wrote, calling for deeper cooperation with European partners and warning that the continent must build its own capacity to produce air defense systems rather than rely on external suppliers.
Reuters contributed to this story.
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Watchdog warns legal powerhouse has made far-left advocacy their ‘dominant focus’ over the last decade
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A conservative watchdog group is adding fodder to the debate over whether the American Bar Association has become a politicized institution favoring the left.
A new report released by Trump-aligned lawfare group America First Legal, co-founded by one of the president’s top advisors, Stephen Miller, claims that the ABA’s Standing Committee on Amicus Curiae Briefs over the last decade has produced 80% of left-leaning liberal arguments, 20% neutral and non conservatively-aligned.
Meanwhile, in all 6 cases the ABA has filed amicus briefs involving Trump, the ABA went against the president or his allies.
President Donald Trump’s second term has included attacks against the ABA, arguing it has politicized its accrediting power, and has favored Democratic Party-backed candidates when vetting judicial nominees. The ABA’s size and legacy make it the premier trade association for the legal sector, but some conservatives fear the group’s power is becoming a «monopoly.»
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«The ABA requires that amicus briefs be authorized by its Board of Governors and must be consistent with existing ABA policy or involve matters of ‘special significance to lawyers or the legal profession,’» a press release from AFL argued. «Briefs on birthright citizenship, transgender healthcare for minors, and the Texas heartbeat law fall well outside that mandate.»
Fox News Digital reached out to the ABA for comment on the allegations about its amicus filings, but did not receive a response in time for publication.
According to AFL’s audit, which scanned briefs filed between April 2016 and February 2026, there were a total of 87 filed. Seventy of them «favored a liberal or progressive outcome,» AFL argues, while none they came across were «conservative-aligned» the group added. The remaining covered what AFL described as neutral issues, such as a patent law case.
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The audit also found that cases where Trump, or a Trump official, was named, and the ABA filed an amicus brief, every time they argued in the direction contrary to the Trump official or Trump himself.
U.S. President Donald Trump sits in the courtroom during his civil fraud trial at New York Supreme Court on January 11, 2024 in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago)
«The ABA presents its amicus program as advancing the interests of the legal profession and the rule of law,» said Gene Hamilton, President of America First Legal.
«The data tells a different story,» Hamilton continued. «More than four in five briefs push a progressive agenda, immigration advocacy has become the program’s dominant focus, and the organization has not once — in ten years and across two Trump administrations — filed a brief that could be characterized as supportive of a conservative legal position. The ABA is not a neutral arbiter and should be treated no differently than any other liberal advocacy group.»
In President Trump’s second term, the Trump administration has taken several steps to push back against what it says is bias at the ABA. In February 2025, Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson announced a new policy prohibiting FTC political appointees from holding leadership roles in the American Bar Association (ABA), participating in ABA events, or renewing their ABA memberships.
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That early action was also followed by several others, such as a May letter to the ABA’s president from Attorney General Pam Bondi indicating the Department of Justice would no longer be engaging in its traditional partnership related to vetting judicial nominees, citing «refusal to fix the bias in its ratings process, despite criticism.»
Meanwhile, in April, Trump signed an Executive Order that singled out the ABA and other powerful accrediting groups, warning that anyone engaging in unlawful discrimination would be refused federal recognition.
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Qué es la enfermedad de Huntington y en qué consiste el “puente secreto” que permite su avance en el cerebro
Crédito del video: Emaad Mirza, Universidad Atlántica Florida
La enfermedad de Huntington es un trastorno poco frecuente y hereditario que provoca movimientos involuntarios y problemas de memoria. Afecta el cerebro poco a poco y suele aparecer en adultos jóvenes o de mediana edad.
Científicos de los Estados Unidos y México consiguieron identificar que la proteína tóxica de Huntington no queda atrapada en una sola neurona, sino que se desplaza entre células.
Lo hacen al usar nanotubos de membrana, que son canales microscópicos que permiten que la enfermedad avance silenciosamente en el cerebro.
A traves de un estudio publicado en Science Advances, investigadores de la Universidad Atlántica de Florida, de los Estados Unidos, y la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, entre otras instituciones, demostraron que las proteínas Rhes y SLC4A7 son esenciales para que se formen esos nanotubos y la huntingtina mutada pueda moverse de una neurona a otra.
Al bloquear SLC4A7, los nanotubos desaparecen y la proteína dañina deja de propagarse. El resultado señala un nuevo camino para desarrollar tratamientos que detengan la enfermedad de Huntington, al impedir que la proteína se extienda por el cerebro y cause más daño.
La enfermedad de Huntington (EH) se produce por una mutación en el gen de la huntingtina, ubicado en el cromosoma 4.
Esta alteración genera una producción anormal de la proteína, que daña progresivamente ciertas áreas del cerebro responsables del control motor, las emociones y las capacidades cognitivas, explicó a Infobae la doctora María Eugenia González Toledo, coordinadora médica General de INECO.
Uno de los grandes desafíos científicos era comprender cómo la huntingtina mutada pasaba de una neurona a otra y expandía el daño cerebral. Durante mucho tiempo, los científicos sospecharon que la proteína no se limitaba a una sola célula, pero no sabían cómo lograba viajar y empeorar la enfermedad. Por eso, los investigadores que publicaron en Science Advances intentaron averiguar si la proteína tóxica usaba caminos físicos y directos entre células, además de las conocidas señales químicas.
Entender ese proceso resultaba clave para imaginar nuevas terapias que pudieran bloquear la expansión del daño desde el principio.
En el laboratorio, los investigadores detectaron que dos proteínas, Rhes y SLC4A7, colaboran en la superficie de las neuronas. Rhes actúa como activador y SLC4A7 regula el equilibrio interno de la célula. Juntas, permiten que se formen los nanotubos de membrana, canales tan pequeños que solo pueden verse con microscopios especiales.
A través de esos nanotubos, la proteína dañina viaja rápidamente entre neuronas, extendiendo la enfermedad.
Srinivasa Subramaniam, uno de los investigadores, dijo: “Este trabajo cambia fundamentalmente la manera en que pensamos sobre la progresión de la enfermedad de Huntington”.
El equipo bloqueó SLC4A7 mediante herramientas genéticas y medicamentos. Cuando esta proteína no funcionaba, los nanotubos de membrana no se formaban y la huntingtina mutada quedaba atrapada en la célula original.
Lo mismo ocurrió en células en laboratorio y en cerebros de ratones modificados para el estudio.
En los ratones sin SLC4A7, la transferencia de la proteína tóxica en el cerebro se redujo, especialmente en el estriado, la región más afectada por la enfermedad.
Estos resultados apoyaron la idea de que cortar estos puentes puede frenar el avance de la patología.
La investigación sugirió que la colaboración entre Rhes y SLC4A7 resulta esencial para que la proteína dañina se propague.
Subramaniam mencionó que “al identificar SLC4A7 como socio clave de Rhes, hemos descubierto un nuevo objetivo potencial para detener esa propagación en su origen”.
El descubrimiento de los nanotubos de membrana tiene implicancias en otras enfermedades, ya que también aparecen en trastornos neurodegenerativos y en cáncer.
En esas afecciones, también las células usan rutas similares para pasar señales y defenderse de medicamentos. Así, el mecanismo podría repetirse en distintos tipos de daño cerebral.
Los científicos sostuvieron que desarrollar medicamentos para bloquear SLC4A7 puede ser clave para impedir la formación de nanotubos y la transmisión de la proteína mutada.
Aclararon que, aunque los resultados en células y ratones son prometedores, falta probar la seguridad y eficacia en seres humanos.
Sin embargo, los resultados del estudio despiertan más esperanza para favorecer el desarrollo de mejores terapias que no solo de la enfermedad de Huntington, sino también de otras afecciones cerebrales y algunos tipos de cáncer.
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