舒默反对《SAVE美国法案》，尽管民调显示83%的美国人支持选民ID要求
By Alex Miller
福克斯新闻
2026年2月15日 美国东部时间下午3:26发布
参议院少数党领袖、纽约州民主党人查克·舒默周日誓言，参议院民主党人将阻止最新的共和党支持的要求公民身份证明才能投票的努力。
“我们不会让它在参议院通过，”舒默告诉美国有线电视新闻网的杰克·塔珀。”我们正在全力以赴地反对它。这是一个离谱的提案，它显示了’让美国再次伟大’（MAGA）右翼的那种政治偏见。他们不希望穷人投票，不希望有色人种投票，因为他们通常不会为他们投票。”
塔珀追问舒默为何反对该法案时，他发表了上述评论，同时指出民调显示约83%的美国人支持某种形式的选民身份证明。这一数据来自去年发布的皮尤研究中心民调，该民调发现71%接受调查的民主党选民支持出示身份证才能投票。
柯林斯支持共和党选民ID努力，但不会废除阻挠议事规则
参议院少数党领袖查克·舒默宣布，民主党人不会接受在距离部分政府停摆仅剩几天时对国土安全部的资金延期。(Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)
尽管如此，舒默和大多数参议院民主党人批评上周在众议院通过的《保护美国选民资格（SAVE）法案》，该法案预计将在参议院面临投票。
该法案将要求公民身份证明才能登记投票，并建立一个州选举官员与联邦当局共享信息以核查选民名单的系统。它还将允许国土安全部（DHS）在发现非公民被列为有资格选民时调查移民案件。
舒默和他的党团将该法案斥为针对较贫穷美国人和少数群体的选民压制。
费特曼抨击民主党人对选民ID立法的”吉姆·克劳2.0″言论，党内团结出现裂痕
参议员约翰·费特曼再次违背了他所在政党在反对选民ID立法方面的信息，认为这”不是一个激进的想法”。(Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
“他们在所谓的《SAVE法案》中提出的内容就像是’吉姆·克劳2.0’，”舒默说。”他们让获得任何类型的选民身份证明变得如此困难，以至于超过2000万合法选民——主要是较贫穷的人和有色人种——将无法根据这项法律投票。”
除非参议院民主党人中有支持（除了可能来自宾夕法尼亚州民主党参议员约翰·费特曼的叛离），否则该法案可能会失败。
唯一的解决办法是消除参议院60票的阻挠议事门槛——共和党反对的举措——或进行所谓的”发言阻挠”，这可能需要数小时的辩论并拖延其他参议院事务。
强硬保守派加倍努力挽救《SAVE法案》
参议院少数党领袖查克·舒默称国土安全部部长克里斯蒂·诺姆关于其机构参与选举的言论是”一堆废话”。(Ash Ponders/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
舒默还反驳了国土安全部部长克里斯蒂·诺姆本周早些时候的评论，诺姆称”选举可能是我们需要确保信任、可靠的最重要的事情之一，而且在选举日到来时，我们已经积极主动地确保有合适的人投票，选出正确的领导人来领导这个国家。”
这些评论是在参议院民主党人和白宫就国土安全部的资金进行谈判之际发表的，国土安全部自周五午夜起已部分停摆。
谈判的一部分包括民主党要求将移民和海关执法局（ICE）特工排除在包括学校和投票站在内的几个区域之外。
“那是一堆废话，”舒默说。”他们没有证据证明存在选民欺诈。全国范围内的欺诈行为少之又少。而且让ICE特工，这些暴徒，出现在投票站，这完全违背了民主运作的方式，违背了我们数百年来非常成功举行选举的方式。”
亚历克斯·米勒是福克斯新闻数字版报道美国参议院的撰稿人。
Schumer says Dems will fight voter ID push ‘tooth and nail,’ balks at DHS role in elections
Schumer opposes SAVE America Act despite polling showing 83% of Americans support voter ID requirements
By Alex Miller
Fox News
Published February 15, 2026 3:26pm EST
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., vowed Sunday that Senate Democrats will block the latest GOP-backed effort to require proof of citizenship to vote.
“We will not let it pass in the Senate,” Schumer told CNN’s Jake Tapper. “We are fighting it tooth and nail. It’s an outrageous proposal that is, you know, that shows the sort of political bias of the MAGA right. They don’t want poor people to vote. They don’t want people of color to vote because they often don’t vote for them.”
Schumer’s comments came after Tapper pressed him on his opposition, noting that polling shows roughly 83% of Americans support some form of voter identification. That figure comes from a Pew Research poll published last year that found 71% of Democratic voters surveyed supported presenting an ID to vote.
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced that Democrats wouldn’t accept a funding extension to DHS with just days left until a partial shutdown.(Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Still, Schumer and most Senate Democrats have criticized the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act, which passed the House last week and is expected to face a vote in the Senate.
The bill would require proof of citizenship to register to vote and would establish a system for state election officials to share information with federal authorities to verify voter rolls. It would also allow the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to pursue immigration cases if noncitizens are found listed as eligible voters.
Schumer and his caucus have panned the bill as voter suppression targeting poorer Americans and minority groups.
FETTERMAN SLAMS DEMOCRATS’ ‘JIM CROW 2.0’ VOTER ID RHETORIC AS PARTY UNITY FRACTURES
Sen. John Fetterman bucked his party once more on their messaging against voter ID legislation, arguing that it wasn’t “a radical idea.”(Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
“What they are proposing in this so-called SAVE Act is like Jim Crow 2.0,” Schumer said. “They make it so hard to get any kind of voter ID that more than 20 million legitimate people, mainly poorer people and people of color, will not be able to vote under this law.”
Without support from Senate Democrats — save for a possible defection from Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa. — the bill is likely to fail.
The only way around that would be eliminating the Senate’s 60-vote filibuster threshold — a move Republicans oppose — or forcing a so-called talking filibuster that could require hours of debate and stall other Senate business.
HARDLINE CONSERVATIVES DOUBLE DOWN TO SAVE THE SAVE ACT
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called Secretary Kristi Noem’s assertion of her agency’s involvement in elections a “load of bull.”(Ash Ponders/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Schumer also pushed back on comments from DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, who earlier this week said elections “may be one of the most important things that we need to make sure we trust, is reliable, and that when it gets to Election Day that we’ve been proactive to make sure that we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country.”
The comments come as Senate Democrats and the White House negotiate funding for DHS, which has been shut down since midnight Friday.
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Part of those negotiations includes Democrats’ demand that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents be kept away from several areas, including schools and polling places.
“That’s a load of bull,” Schumer said. “They show no evidence of voter fraud. They show there’s so little in the country. And to have ICE agents, these thugs, be by the polling places, that just flies in the face of how democracy works, of how we’ve had elections for hundreds of years, very successfully.”
Alex Miller is a writer for Fox News Digital covering the U.S. Senate.