Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., warned that if House Republicans try to jam voter ID legislation into the Trump-backed funding deal, it would be dead on arrival in the Senate.

House Republicans want to walk away from the current spending fight with a victory of sorts, despite President Donald Trump taking the lead and negotiating a temporary funding truce with Schumer and Senate Democrats. 

They’re demanding that the five-bill funding package, which stripped out the controversial Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spending bill in favor of a two-week funding extension, also include the House Republicans’ updated Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility Act, dubbed the SAVE America Act. 

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But doing so is a bridge too far for Schumer. The top Senate Democrat argued that the legislation, which has been sitting on the shelf in the House for months, is «reminiscent of Jim Crow-era laws,» and would act as a means to suppress voters rather than encourage more secure elections. 

«I have said it before, and I’ll say it again, the SAVE Act would impose Jim Crow-type laws to the entire country and is dead on arrival in the Senate,» Schumer said in a statement. 

«It is a poison pill that will kill any legislation that it is attached to. If House Republicans add the SAVE Act to the bipartisan appropriations package it will lead to another prolonged Trump government shutdown,» he continued. 

HOUSE DEMOCRATS MUTINY SCHUMER’S DEAL WITH WHITE HOUSE, THREATENING LONGER SHUTDOWN

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., speaks to members of the media outside a House Republican Conference meeting at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Sept. 3, 2025.  (Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

The updated version of the SAVE Act would require that people present photo identification before voting, states obtain proof of citizenship in-person when people register to vote and remove non-citizens from voter rolls.

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., who is leading the push to attach the voter ID legislation to the funding package, countered Schumer’s accusation in a post on X.

«If you are a minority that wants a voter ID, apparently you are for racist policies according to [Schumer],» she said.

Schumer’s edict touches on the reality of the partisan divide in the Senate and the nature of passing any legislation in most cases. In order for the SAVE Act to become law, it would have to get at least 60 votes in the upper chamber. And given Senate Democrats’ disdain for the bill, that is unlikely. 

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Rep. Steve Scalise, House Speaker Mike Johnson and Rep. Tom Cole appear during a news conference in Washington, Oct. 8, 2025. (Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

And adding the bill would further disincentivize House Democrats, who are already leery of the deal. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., may need their support given the anger simmering in his conference. 

Further complicating matters is that if the modified package with the SAVE Act were to make it out of the House, it would have to go back to the Senate, creating a virtual ping-pong between the chambers as what was meant to be a short-term partial government shutdown drags on.

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Still, House Republicans aren’t backing off of their demands and have backup in the upper chamber from Sens. Rick Scott, R-Fla., and Mike Lee, R-Utah, and a co-sponsor of the updated SAVE Act.

«House Republicans shouldn’t let Schumer dictate the terms of government funding,» Rep. Eric Burlison, R-Mo., said on X. «If Dems want to play games, no spending package should come out of the House without the SAVE Act attached — securing American elections must be a non-negotiable.»

La Florida afronta por estas horas una ola de frío que dejó nieve en varias ciudades del estado y que alteró los planes de residentes y turistas en Miami. La sensación térmica llegó a ser bajo cero en el cierre del fin de semana, por un fenómeno que afecta al sudeste de los Estados Unidos.

El frío ocurre por un «ciclón costero de rápida intensificación» con «pesadas nevadas, altos vientos y condiciones de ventiscas», en particular para los estados Carolina del Sur y del Norte, además de nieve en Virginia y Georgia, todos estados del sur, según el Servicio Meteorológico estadounidense (NWS, su sigla en inglés). Y extiende sus efectos a Florida.

Ocurre, además, cuando el país aún no sale de su asombro por la ola de frío que, hace una semana, golpeó al noreste de los Estados Unidos, con las calles de Nueva York sepultadas bajo varios centímetros de nieve, un fenómeno que dejó más de 100 muertos.

Para Florida se esperaban temperaturas récord en los últimos 15 años. Y el domingo Miami registró valores de temperatura cercanos a los 0 grados centígrados: los 1.6°C del domingo fueron la marca más baja desde 2010, según NBC.

La sensación térmica llegó a ubicarse, de manera puntual, por debajo de ese umbral (-1.1 el domingo por la mañana, según las observaciones en el aeropuerto internacional de Miami).

El frío, que afectó al lanzamiento de la misión Artemis II, también obligó a demorar y cancelar vuelos. Dejó también el extraño fenómeno de las iguanas congeladas: esos reptiles caen desde los árboles o aparecen inmóviles en la calle.

IGUANA GENOCIDE
Miami, Feb.1 2026, morning
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— Noah Jones (@noahjones4321) February 2, 2026

Incluso los medios locales se preguntan si las compañías de seguros cubren posibles daños a los autos estacionados debajo de los árboles.

Por lo pronto, la Comisión de Conservación de Pesca y Vida Silvestre de Florida (FWC) lanzó un operativo para que los ciudadanos las recojan y las lleven a lugares designados por las autoridades para tratarlas y, en caso de ser necesario, sacrificarlas.

Miami, por ahora, quedó exenta de la caída de nieve, a pesar de que los pronósticos mantenían algunas probabilidades de que ocurriera ese fenómeno.

Este lunes a la mañana, en tanto, la temperatura se ubicaba en torno a los 2 grados centígrados en Miami. Pero en la madrugada había alcanzado marcas de -2°C en Palmdale y de -1°C en la zona metropolitana en los primeros minutos del día.

En esa zona se anticipaba una caída más notoria de la temperatura para la noche.

4 AM: Here is a snapshot of low temperatures since midnight. Coldest temp so far this morning was 24 in Palmdale up in Glades County! In the metro, we’re solidly in the 30’s again this morning. With still a few hours to go, temps may still drop a few more degrees. 🥶 pic.twitter.com/nS82g5OPbv

— NWS Miami (@NWSMiami) February 2, 2026

Para hoy regía una advertencia por frío extremo para los condados de Volusia, Lake, Seminole, Orange, Asceola, Brevard, Indian River, St Lucie, Martin y Okeechobee. «Se esperan temperaturas peligrosamente frías», indicaron los pronosticadores, con temperaturas de entre -5 y 0 grados centígrados.

Pidieron limitar el tiempo fuera de las casas, no exponer a las mascotas, utilizar ropa de abrigo y tener cuidado con los calentadores.

Flurries in Naples pic.twitter.com/UyPC9SYgbG

— Julie Lynch (@un4scenetiger) February 1, 2026

Si bien no hubo nieve en Miami, otras localidades de Florida sí tuvieron la visita de los copos blancos.

Una de ellas fue Tampa Bay. «Se reportaron nevadas en las zonas costeras del centro-oeste y suroeste de Florida, desde el condado de Levy hasta el condado de Lee», informó este domingo la oficina del servicio meteorológico de esa región. Otra de las localidades afectadas fue Naples, ene l condado de Collier.

En tanto, se espera que el martes continúen las bajas temperaturas en Florida, aunque ese día a la tarde y el miércoles habrá una suba de los registros. El jueves llegaría otro frente frío que devolvería al estado a un período de frío polar.

A wild bull elephant trampled and killed a 65-year-old tourist at a national park in Thailand on Monday, according to park officials.

The tourist was taking a morning walk with his wife when an elephant named Oyewan trampled him at Khao Yai National Park, national park chief Chaiya Huayhongthong told AFP.

Park rangers managed to scare the animal away, which allowed the tourist’s wife to escape, Chaiya said.

«He was the third person killed by Oyewan,» he said, adding that authorities will meet on Friday to decide on how to deal with the elephant.

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«We will probably decide to relocate him or change his behavior,» he told the outlet, without elaborating.

The tourist killed was identified as Jirathachai Jiraphatboonyathorn from Lopburi province, the Bangkok Post reported.

A Thai boy washes an elephant near the Khao Yai national park on March 19, 2017, in Pak Chong, Thailand. (Isa Foltin/Getty Images)

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Fox News Digital reached out to Khao Yai National Park but did not immediately hear back.

An elephant bull stands in the Ban Ta Klang elephant village in Surin, Thailand, on Nov. 14, 2015. (Ian Robert Knight/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Wild elephants have caused an estimated 227 human fatalities between 2012 and 2024 in Thailand, The Nation reported, citing a report from the Department of National Parks, Wildlife, and Plant Conservation.

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The elephant population in Thailand has ballooned since 2015, rising from 334 to nearly 800 last year, AFP reported. Authorities have been trying to manage the population by giving female elephants contraceptive vaccines.