You’d think that the majority of Congress members could agree on an increasingly narrow issue, and you’d think that the requirement to vote would still be citizenship. But unfortunately, it doesn’t look that way. The House of Representatives passed the SAVE Act on Wednesday afternoon – but only five Democrats voted for the measure.
🚨 #BREAK: The U.S. House of Representatives PASSED the SAVE Act, which requires proof of citizenship to vote.
This is NOT CHILD’S PLAY.
Yet virtually EVERY SINGLE DEMOCRAT voted against this measure, as if they wanted illegals to vote.
WHY? pic.twitter.com/vXKXoFMWfz
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) July 10, 2024
I guess we’ve reached the point where partisanship trumps even the most axiomatic concepts. The final vote was 221 to 198. main topic of conversation The resistance to this measure seems to be: “But that (non-citizens being able to vote) almost never happens.”
The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a bill to require proof of citizenship as a requirement for voter registration, a key election-year issue for Republicans despite research showing that it is extremely scarce for noncitizens to illegally register and vote in federal elections.
The bill, which passed largely along party lines but was sponsored by five Democrats, is unlikely to pass the Democratic-led Senate. The Biden administration also says it strongly opposes the bill because there are already protections in place against noncitizen voting, but stopped compact of saying it would block the bill if it made it to Biden’s desk.
I want to pause here and make a point: Do “governments” usually veto bills? Or is it presidents? (I just thought that was an engaging choice of words in delicate of recent events that raise the question of who exactly is in charge in the Oval Office at the moment.)
UPDATED: RNC Platform Committee adopts slimmed-down party platform,
Eliminates two crucial points
No ID required: Biden administration rejects bill requiring proof of citizenship to vote
Despite the likelihood that the bill will not pass the Democratic-dominated Senate, House Speaker Mike Johnson praised its passage in the House.
Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson, one of the bill’s key supporters, said at a press conference earlier this week that Democratic opposition means many Democrats “want illegal immigrants to participate in our federal elections; they want them to vote.”
In a speech on Wednesday, he described the vote as a “generation-defining moment.”
“If just a small percentage, a fraction of a fraction of all the illegals that Joe Biden brought here to vote, it wouldn’t just change one race,” he said. “It could potentially change all of our races.”
Johnson also released a statement on the passage of the SAVE Act on X, noting that with this vote, members of Congress have now officially stated their stance on non-citizen voting:
My statement on the adoption of the SAVE Act: pic.twitter.com/Id1v9zEDqz
— Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) July 10, 2024
Today, 198 Democrats in the House of Representatives voted against barring illegal immigrants from voting in American elections. Over the past four years, Joe Biden has welcomed millions upon millions of illegal immigrants into the country, knowing full well that noncitizens only have to check a box to vote in a federal election.
We have long known that this was a deliberate attempt to turn them into voters, and now the American people know where every member of Congress stands on this critically crucial issue. Republicans in the House believe that only Americans should vote in American elections. Democrats in the House have now proven that they believe that illegal immigrants should vote in American elections.
