TIPSHEET_ GOP Secures Votes Needed to Pass the SAVE Act (Joseph Chalfant - TOWNHALL)

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GOP Secures Votes Needed to Pass the SAVE Act

Joseph Chalfant | February 13, 2026 8:30 PM

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Senate Republicans have secured the needed votes to pass the SAVE Act after Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) confirmed that she would sign on as a co-sponsor of the bill late Friday afternoon.

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🚨 BREAKING: SEN. SUSAN COLLINS (R-ME) is a YEA on the SAVE America Act, a HUGE victory!

We are now at 50 GUARANTEED VOTES — with JD Vance, that's enough to PASS it after a talking filibuster!

Collins was previously unsure.

THIS IS MASSIVE! Get it done, save the republic! pic.twitter.com/At96Ieqk9i
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) February 13, 2026

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With that, Republicans have reached 50 votes, with Vice President JD Vance serving as the tie-breaking 51st vote to pass the bill. The ordeal is not yet over, however. Republican leadership would still need to bring the bill forward, voting Democrats to utilize a “standing” filibuster rather than the more typical “silent” filibuster used when a measure has fewer than the 60 votes needed to invoke cloture.
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What’s next now that we have enough votes to pass the motion to proceed to the House-passed SAVE America Act?

In a nutshell, we now need to convince Senate Republicans to ditch the Zombie Filibuster & enforce the Talking Filibuster on this bill! https://t.co/WsNZfFJUrQ pic.twitter.com/TOiT3gYYuB

— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) February 13, 2026

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Conservative Republicans have strongly advocated for leadership to pursue this path, as they see it as the only way forward for advancing President Trump’s agenda, with Democrats being unwilling to be reasonable in negotiations.

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