Trump's obsession with SAVE America Act drives Congress into standoff

Washington — President Trump and House conservatives are holding Congress hostage over Senate Republicans' inability to pass a voting regulations bill known as the SAVE America Act. Mr. Trump abruptly canceled a signing ceremony Wednesday for a landmark housing affordability bill that has overwhelming bipartisan support in both chambers, seeking once again to use unrelated legislation as political leverage in his push to get Congress to adopt controversial voting requirements, such as showing proof of citizenship and restrictions on mail-in ballots. The House has passed earlier versions of the bill that aren't as sweeping, with support from a handful of Democrats. But the president has since requested to add other Republican priorities, like bans on mail-in voting and transgender athletes' participation in women's sports. Senate Republican leaders have repeatedly said the bill does not have the support to reach the 60-vote threshold to advance in the upper chamber. That hasn't stopped the president from trying. He threatened earlier this year not to sign most other bills until Congress passed the SAVE America Act. Earlier this month, Mr. Trump refused to reauthorize a warrantless surveillance authority that is the source of the bulk of the intelligence in his daily security briefing unless the election bill was attached. It still has not been reauthorized. …