Require photo ID to vote in federal elections and provide grants to states so eligible citizens can obtain REAL IDs.

Julie Fedorchak · North Dakota · Republican

policy impact 0.62 specificity 0.90 extraction confidence 95%

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Occurrences

My bill, the Save America with Real ID Act, is really intended to be a companion to the SAVE America Act. It will provide grants to states to help them pay for real IDs for American citizens who don’t have them, so that they too can have the proper identification to vote in federal elections once we pass the SAVE America Act.

Fedorchak described her bill as a companion to the SAVE America Act that would fund state grants for REAL IDs and support a voter ID requirement for federal elections.

Fedorchak on Fox Business: “It’s common sense requiring American voters to have an ID to vote in American elections” | Representative Julie Fedorchak
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Evidence

Congress.gov’s CRS summary says the bill requires documentary proof of U.S. citizenship and photo identification to vote in federal elections, and the overview shows the bill was only introduced and referred to House Administration on 2026-01-30.

This is the closest federal analogue to the pledge. It advances the photo-ID requirement, but the bill is still only introduced, so it is not delivered.

partial same_term A for effort

H.R.7296 - 119th Congress (2025-2026): SAVE America Act | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
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The bill text includes REAL ID-compliant citizenship documents and photo-ID rules for federal voting, but a search of the text shows no grant or funding language.

The election-ID portion moved into draft legislation, but the promised grants to help states obtain REAL IDs do not appear in the bill text.

never same_term A for effort

Text - H.R.7296 - 119th Congress (2025-2026): SAVE America Act | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
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On April 10, 2025, the House passed H.R.22, the SAVE Act, 220-208; the roll-call page lists Julie Fedorchak as voting Yea.

Fedorchak backed a House-passed version of the voter-ID/citizenship bill, which is a concrete effort toward the promise, but it still stopped short of becoming law.

partial same_term A for effort

House Roll Call Vote 102 | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
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Congress.gov’s actions page shows H.R.22 was received in the Senate on 2025-04-10 and its status remains Passed House.

The core voter-ID effort advanced in the House but did not finish the legislative process, leaving the pledge unresolved at the federal level.

unresolved same_term A for effort

Actions - H.R.22 - 119th Congress (2025-2026): SAVE Act | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
secondary · model gpt-5.4-mini · confidence 97%

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Assessments

unresolved same_term A for effort

The promise has two parts: impose a federal voter photo-ID requirement and provide grants so eligible citizens can obtain REAL IDs. As of June 19, 2026, the closest federal efforts only partially track that agenda. Julie Fedorchak voted for the House-passed SAVE Act, which shows meaningful same-term effort on the voter-ID/citizenship side, but that bill has not become law. The cited later House bill text also does not include the promised grant funding component. Because no enacted federal outcome has delivered either the full package or even the core requirement, but there has been real in-term legislative movement and the term is still ongoing, the best judgment is unresolved rather than delivered or full failure.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.4 · confidence 88%