As you may have seen in the news, last week the House failed to pass a funding bill that included the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, which would require proof of citizenship for voter registration nationwide. With millions of illegal immigrants crossing the border under the Biden-Harris administration, Americans are rightfully concerned about noncitizens influencing the outcome of our elections. Even with all the critical problems we have to deal with, you would hope election integrity is one Congress would have a sacred duty to address.
While Texas has been proactive in removing noncitizens from voter rolls, states like Pennsylvania and Arizona lag behind. The SAVE Act is aimed to ensure election integrity nationwide and implement reforms preventing lawless bureaucrats from working around the system. Sadly, it was blocked by Democrats, leaving our elections in the same vulnerable state.
This was also a missed chance to prevent a massive "Christmas omnibus" spending bill - a term we use to describe the process where Swamp bureaucrats get together and try to jam through a huge pork spending bill in December, using the threat of missing Christmas as a way to get votes. It is a horribly bad faith process, and sadly many members of Congress fall for it. I am deeply concerned Democrats will use this process to entrench Biden-Harris administration policies and spending levels–thus limiting the first year of a new Trump administration, if President Trump is elected. That is part of what we’re working to prevent.
We’re working on alternative solutions and I will keep you updated. This is a fight worth having and I am not backing down.