Senator Mike Lee Weighs in on the SAVE America Act – “This is One of Our Most Sacred, Fundamental Rights, and That Right Will be Diluted, Distorted and Offset if We Allow Noncitizens to Vote” (VIDEO)
March 22, 2026
Senator Mike Lee was on “Sunday Morning Futures” with host Maria Bartiromo to talk about the SAVE America Act. This would require proof of ID and citizenship to vote in federal elections.
“Can you tell us what’s going on in the Senate this morning, and what happened yesterday?” Bartiromo asked.
“We are continuing to debate the SAVE America Act because Americans overwhelmingly believe that voters in the United States, you need to be US citizens,” Lee said.
“So, our bill does two things in order to make it easy to vote, and hard to cheat,” Lee continued.
“When you register to vote, you need to prove that you are a citizen, and when you show up to vote, you need to show up with a voter ID,” Lee explained.
Senator Lee explained that securing the vote is important, and noncitizens’ voting will affect the vote of a US citizen.
“It’s not too much to ask, as this is one of our most sacred, fundamental rights, and that right will be diluted, distorted, and offset if we allow noncitizens to vote,” Lee continued.
“Chuck Schumer says it’s dead on arrival. The democrats are unified,” Bartiromo said.
“In its current form, perhaps. In its current form and until we’ve had more debate,” Lee said.
“We need a few weeks to debate this. If we can have a few weeks to debate it, that will sharpen the discussion. And members grow exhausted over time, and with that exhaustion, we’ll find ways of achieving consensus,” Lee explained.
“This will pass if we give it enough time,” Lee said.
“What about putting it in as part of a reconciliation package?” Bartiromo asked.
“The SAVE America Act doesn’t meet the standard characteristics of a budget reconciliation bill because it is not budgetary,” Lee continued.
“We’ve got only a 10-vote closure deficit to overcome here. This is a simpler bill, and it’s preferred by 85 percent of American voters,” Lee explained.
BREAKING UPDATE: Man Who Fatally Shot Loyola University Student is an Illegal Alien From Venezuela Released Into US by Biden Regime
March 22, 2026
Loyola University student Sheridan Gorman murdered by Venezuelan illegal alien Jose Medina-Medina
Another innocent young American woman has been murdered by one of Joe Biden’s illegal aliens.
Very early Thursday morning, 18-year-old Loyola University student Sheridan Gorman was shot and killed near campus in Chicago.
A masked gunman approached a group of students walking in Rogers Park and opened fire.
Gorman was shot in the head and died at the scene.
On Sunday it was confirmed that the masked gunman who killed Gorman is a 25-year-old illegal alien from Venezuela who entered the US under the Biden Regime.
Police took Jose Medina-Medina into custody.
Per Fox News reporter Bill Melugin: DHS confirms that the suspect in custody for murdering Loyola University student Sheridan Gorman in Chicago is a Venezuelan illegal alien who was caught & released at the border by the Biden administration in May 2023. DHS says he was also released from local custody after a shoplifting arrest in the sanctuary city of Chicago on June 19, 2023.
The Department of Homeland Security blasted the Biden Regime.
“Sheridan Gorman had her whole life ahead of her before this cold-blooded killer decided to end her life. She was failed by open border policies and sanctuary politicians who RELEASED this illegal alien TWICE before he went on to commit this heinous murder,” said Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis.
“We are calling on Governor Pritzker and Chicago’s sanctuary politicians to commit to not releasing this criminal illegal alien from jail back into American neighborhoods,” the DHS said.
BREAKING: DHS confirms that the suspect in custody for murdering Loyola University student Sheridan Gorman in Chicago is a Venezuelan illegal alien who was caught & released at the border by the Biden administration in May 2023. DHS says he was also released from local custody… pic.twitter.com/tIo3iSualm
Full statement from Gorman’s family via ABC 7 Chicago:
“Our beloved daughter, Sheridan, was taken from us this morning in Chicago. There is no way to soften this-this was murder. Sheridan was the light of our lives. She made people feel seen, safe, and loved simply by being who she was. She lived her faith with kindness, compassion, and joy, and she loved her family and friends deeply.
We trusted that she would be safe. That trust was broken. Someone made a deliberate choice that stole our daughter and forever changed our family. We are demanding answers, and we will not stop until the person responsible is identified and brought to justice.
We are deeply grateful for the outpouring of support from the various communities connected to our family. It has carried us through moments we could not endure alone. We take comfort in our faith, but nothing can lessen the devastation of this loss.
If you know anything, please come forward. We ask for privacy as we grieve. Sheridan was our light. And she always will be.”
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Senate Votes to Advance Markwayne Mullin For DHS Chief
March 22, 2026
The Senate on Sunday voted to advance Markwayne Mullin’s DHS nomination.
Mullin’s nomination for DHS Secretary cleared the Senate Homeland Security Committee last week in an 8-7 vote.
Fetterman voted with the Republicans and GOP Senator Rand Paul opposed Mullin.
President Trump earlier this month fired Kristi Noem as DHS Chief and immediately announced that Senator Markwayne Mullin (OK) will become the next Secretary of Homeland Security effective March 31.
Markwayne Mullin will have to be confirmed by the Senate and on Sunday he passed a key hurdle.
The Senate on Sunday voted 54-37 to advance Mullin’s nomination.
Fetterman joined the Republicans and voted to advance Mullin.
Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., survived a key test vote on Sunday on his way to becoming the next Homeland Security chief.
Mullin, who was tapped by President Donald Trump to be the next Department of Homeland Security secretary, still has one more vote to go, and likely won’t be confirmed until Monday evening.
Should he survive the final confirmation vote on Monday, he will replace DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, who Trump fired following explosive hearings on the Hill and after the deaths of Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti during immigration operations in Minnesota.
Sunday’s test vote, which was largely party-line save for Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., who was the key vote to move his colleague out of committee earlier in the week, comes after his explosive confirmation hearing earlier in the week.
“I am grateful to President Trump for nominating me to lead the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. I look forward to earning the support of my colleagues in the Senate and carrying out President Trump’s mission alongside the department’s many capable agencies and the thousands of patriots who keep us safe every day,” Mullin said earlier this month.
“President Trump ran on restoring law and order, and he quickly delivered the most secure U.S. border in American history. I look forward to supporting @POTUS’ mission to safeguard the American people and defend the homeland,” he said.
As a kid from Westville, it has been the greatest honor and privilege to serve the people of Oklahoma for the past thirteen years in both the House and Senate.
I am grateful to President Trump for nominating me to lead the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. I look forward to…
Iran Conflict Exposes Chinese Military Technology Failures
March 22, 2026
Chinese radar and tracking systems failed during the U.S.-Iran conflict. Photo courtesy of web.junhao.mil.cn
U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran have demonstrated that Chinese military hardware does not perform as Beijing claims. Chinese-made air defense systems deployed in Iran were unable to intercept large-scale airstrikes, raising serious doubts about their combat effectiveness and damaging China’s credibility as an arms exporter.
Israel deployed around 200 fighter jets while the United States struck more than 1,000 targets using B-2 stealth bombers and Tomahawk cruise missiles. Iran failed to shoot down a single aircraft. According to Global Defense Corp, EA-18G Growlers destroyed three batteries of Chinese HQ-9B surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) and four YLC-8B anti-stealth radars in the first hour of the operation, with the HQ-9B system firing no interceptors and failing to detect incoming HARM anti-radiation missiles. The IAEA later confirmed that the Natanz nuclear facility sustained damage.
Iran had deployed China’s fourth-generation mobile radar, the YLC-8B, which Beijing first unveiled at the 2016 Zhuhai Airshow and claimed could detect U.S. F-22 and F-35 stealth fighters from 250 kilometers away. Chinese-origin JY-14 surveillance radars, alongside Iran’s indigenous Bavar-373 air defense system, also failed to down any coalition aircraft across more than 2,500 sorties. Post-strike analysis identified several technical weaknesses: software instability in targeting computers, poor resistance to radar jamming and spoofing, and an inability to share data across the broader air defense grid.
China had secretly supplied Iran with roughly $5 billion worth of weapons under an oil-for-weapons agreement, including 50 CM-302 supersonic anti-ship cruise missiles, three HQ-9B anti-ballistic systems, four YLC-9B radars, six HQ-16B surface-to-air missile systems, and 1,200 FN-6 MANPADS. Reports indicate that much of this hardware was destroyed on the first day of strikes. Iran fired 52 missiles and drones at the USS Abraham Lincoln strike group; U.S. Aegis destroyers intercepted all of them.
The CM-302 missiles failed mid-flight, either deviating from their targets due to guidance failure or failing to accelerate to Mach 3 in the terminal phase. Post-strike analysis attributed this to a design flaw: the missile relies on the same seeker as the C-802 but lacks a data link, satellite link, or active guidance in the terminal phase, receiving only a single tracking update at launch and no continuous radar data thereafter.
This was not the first time Chinese hardware failed in combat. During India’s Operation Sindoor in May 2025, Pakistan deployed Chinese-made radars and HQ-9B systems to protect key military installations, and they failed. Pakistan’s air force lost roughly 20 percent of its infrastructure, with analysts attributing the failure to over-reliance on an automated system easily disrupted by the volume of munitions India employed.
In January 2026, during Operation Absolute Resolve against Venezuela, Chinese-made JY-27A radar systems used by Venezuelan forces were disabled and failed to detect approaching U.S. aircraft before any missiles could lock on. China’s HQ-9B air defense system has now failed to prevent attacks in three separate conflicts, Iran, Pakistan, and Venezuela, with radar jamming cited as a consistent vulnerability across all three.
One significant analytical caveat applies to the Iran case. Multiple defense experts, including Xu Tianran and Joshua Arostegui of the U.S. Army War College, have argued there is no photographic evidence, no satellite imagery, and no U.S. or Israeli government confirmation that HQ-9B systems were ever deployed or delivered to Iran.
The Chinese Embassy in Israel denied that China had supplied Iran with the HQ-9B at all, stating that China never exports weapons to countries engaged in warfare. The broader failure of Chinese-supplied systems, JY-14 and YLC-8B radars, SF-200 drones, is widely reported and not meaningfully contested. The specific HQ-9B claims remain disputed.
Beijing’s public response combined denial with deflection. Chinese officials blamed user error in the Pakistan case, accusing the Pakistani military of a lack of professionalism, and reportedly asked Islamabad to conceal or destroy evidence of the HQ-9B’s failure. On Iran, Beijing framed the U.S.-Israeli operation as evidence of American unilateralism. Xi Jinping remained publicly silent on the failure of Chinese-supplied hardware.
Some Chinese voices were more candid. Retired PLA colonel Yue Gang publicly urged China to re-evaluate its military capability and shift from reverse-engineering to domestic technology development, stating that what is inside military hardware matters more than how it looks. Military commentator Song Zhongping said China lacks multi-domain warfare capabilities and trains its military using a Soviet-era model from the early 1950s, lacking coordination among forces.
Chinese international relations scholar Shi Yinhong said the strikes on Iran indicate U.S. military power is superior and that America’s methods of warfare have further evolved. Georgetown University professor Dennis Wilder described the Iran war as a potential wake-up call for the PLA comparable to the 1991 Gulf War, which had previously driven dramatic changes in Chinese strategy and doctrine.
Corruption within China’s defense industry compounds the hardware performance problems. As of late 2025 and early 2026, numerous top PLA commanders, including navy admiral Miao Hua, were removed or placed under investigation for embezzlement, bribery, and misappropriation of state assets, particularly within the Rocket Force and major defense enterprises. Analysts assess that systemic corruption has likely led to substandard equipment and hindered overall readiness.
Experts assess that the U.S. and Israel demonstrated overwhelming superiority in electronic and cyber warfare, intelligence gathering, and multi-domain military integration across land, sea, air, and space. John Culver, a former CIA senior analyst on China’s military, noted that China’s force looks highly capable on paper but has not been to war in a very long time, and its ability to conduct complex, large-scale integrated joint operations remains untested. China is assessed to be roughly a decade behind the United States in advanced military technology.
The reputational damage to Chinese arms exports is being assessed as severe. Countries including Egypt, Azerbaijan, Pakistan, and Iran spent billions on Chinese air defense systems. In Latin America, Peru, Argentina, and Uruguay have opted for U.S. systems instead; Argentina and Peru chose F-16s over China’s JF-17. The most consequential dimension is the Taiwan scenario. Every failure of Chinese-exported hardware in real combat is a data point U.S. and Taiwanese planners are studying closely. The CM-302’s guidance failures, if repeated in a Taiwan contingency, would put billions of dollars’ worth of Chinese naval vessels at serious risk.
China is studying the war through satellite and other forms of imagery, gathering millions of data points that will be analyzed with AI to identify weaknesses in its own equipment and to look for vulnerabilities in U.S. and Israeli capabilities. But turning those lessons into reliable, combat-effective systems will take time. Building the next generation of improved systems could take years. As a result, Beijing’s timeline for a Taiwan invasion may extend beyond the widely cited 2027 target.
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