House Republicans on Friday unveiled their plan to avert a government shutdown that is already triggering the Democrats because it includes a measure to require proof of citizenship to vote in elections.
The 46-page plan would keep the government funded into March 2025, and it includes language from the GOP’s SAVE Act that would require voters to prove their citizenship status before voting.
“Today, House Republicans are taking a critically important step to keep the federal government funded and to secure our federal election process,” House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said after the bill went up.
“Congress has a responsibility to do both, and we must ensure that only American citizens can decide American elections.”
Predictably, Democrats like Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) are not happy with the provision requiring proof of citizenship to vote, calling it a “partisan” stunt.
“Speaker Johnson is making the same mistake as former Speaker McCarthy did a year ago, by wasting precious time catering to the hard MAGA right. This tactic didn’t work last September and it will not work this year either. The House Republican funding proposal is an ominous case of déjà vu,” he said in a joint statement with Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.).
The House GOP funding plan is a bad case of déjà vu
— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) September 6, 2024
Avoiding a shutdown takes bipartisanship, but Speaker Johnson is making the same mistake former Speaker McCarthy did by catering to the hard-right
If Speaker Johnson continues down this path, a shutdown will be on their hands
“If Speaker Johnson drives House Republicans down this highly partisan path, the odds of a shutdown go way up, and Americans will know that the responsibility of a shutdown will be on the House Republicans’ hands.”
A budget spending bill must be passed by early October to avert a government shutdown.
Why would Democrats stand against a common-sense proposal like requiring proof of citizenship to vote?
It’s because illegal aliens overwhelmingly support Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for opening the U.S. border to them — and they’ve already been caught attempting to register to vote.
BREAKING: A Democrat organization named Poder Latinx just got BUSTED registering voters outside a DMV in Phoenix, Arizona, without requiring proof of citizenship
— George (@BehizyTweets) September 5, 2024
They tell voters they only need to show a driver's license to register to vote, which DOES NOT prove citizenship.
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Even tech billionaire Elon Musk has repeatedly called out Democrats for their scheme to allow illegal aliens to vote to skew the election their way.
Because not requiring ID, combined with mail in voting, makes it completely impossible to prove fraud (obviously) https://t.co/PbmwrsMb5L
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 4, 2024
The incentive is obvious, as it would turn all swing states into deep blue Democrat states, making America a one-party country forever https://t.co/3jXS2OnXYb
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 6, 2024
Read the GOP’s budget proposal: