{"id":69150,"date":"2026-03-17T06:55:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T11:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/senate-expected-to-take-up-voter-id-bill-opposed-by-democrats-us-politics-live\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T06:55:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T11:55:15","slug":"senate-expected-to-take-up-voter-id-bill-opposed-by-democrats-us-politics-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/senate-expected-to-take-up-voter-id-bill-opposed-by-democrats-us-politics-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate expected to take up voter ID bill opposed by Democrats \u2013 US politics live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump has vowed not to sign any other legislation until the passage of Save America act, which would create more barriers for voting<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Illinois voters on Tuesday will decide between a crowded field of Democratic candidates vying to be the state\u2019s next senator as the midwestern state also nominates candidates for five open congressional seats.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Longtime Illinois senator Dick Durbin\u2019s retirement leaves a competitive race that includes two US representatives and the lieutenant governor vying to replace him, with massive infusions of money coming to the candidates from outside groups, including donors affiliated with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac), that are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/16\/aipac-pro-israel-super-pac-elections\">spending millions<\/a> to sway voters.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/mar\/17\/us-senate-voter-id-donald-trump-iran-hormuz-latest-news-updates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump has vowed not to sign any other legislation until the passage of Save America act, which would create more barriers for voting Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Illinois voters on Tuesday will decide between a crowded field of Democratic candidates vying to be &#8230; <a title=\"Senate expected to take up voter ID bill opposed by Democrats \u2013 US politics live\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/senate-expected-to-take-up-voter-id-bill-opposed-by-democrats-us-politics-live\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Senate expected to take up voter ID bill opposed by Democrats \u2013 US politics live\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}