President Trump’s former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, who participated in Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election results, is echoing the President’s push for Republicans to pass the SAVE Act — a controversial voter ID measure.
[Note: In April 2024, Meadows was indicted by an Arizona grand jury on felony charges along with several others related to their alleged efforts to subvert President Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory. In November 2025, Trump pardoned Meadows.]
On Tuesday, Meadows wrote: “I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: If republicans in the senate fail to pass the SAVE America Act, Democrats will take control.”
Despicable hackery from someone who should know better. The corruption runs deeper and deeper. Believe in and fight for America, somebody has to https://t.co/RyqvXJUsBA
— Gregg Nunziata (@greggnunziata) March 25, 2026
Critics of the Trump administration on both sides of the aisle objected to Meadows’ post.
Former DOJ prosecutor Gregg Nunziata — who served as policy counsel to the Senate Republican Policy Committee, and later as general counsel and domestic policy adviser to Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) — replied to Meadows: “Despicable hackery from someone who should know better. The corruption runs deeper and deeper. Believe in and fight for America, somebody has to.”
Former Recorder of Maricopa County, Arizona, Stephen Richer — a Republican who filed a defamation suit against Kari Lake for claims she allegedly made that Richer was involved in election interference — replied to Meadows: “Genuinely curious: Why is it necessary for Republican success in 2026 (and all future elections)? But wasn’t necessary in 2024 (or many other previous elections)?”
Genuinely curious:
Why is it necessary for Republican success in 2026 (and all future elections)?
But wasn’t necessary in 2024 (or many other previous elections)?
— Stephen Richer (@stephen_richer) March 25, 2026
And The Forward Party — the centrist political party founded by former Democratic 2020 presidential candidate Andrew Yang and former Republican New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman — replied to Meadows: “Is it about which party has control? Is that the proper motivation for reforming the system? This post highlights everything that is wrong with the current system.”
The Brennan Center for Justice contends that the SAVE Act — in all of its numerous iterations — is “part of a broader federal agenda to sow distrust in our elections, undermine election administration, and discourage Americans from making their voices heard,” asserting that it “would block millions of American citizens from voting. Saying the SAVE Act “solves nothing,” Brennan also notes that “all available evidence, including from the Trump administration itself, indicates that only American citizens vote and the exceptions are vanishingly rare.”