House approves voter ID bill backed by Trump
The House of Representatives on Wednesday passed legislation requiring Americans to do so Show proof of citizenship Before registering to vote and present a photo ID before casting your vote.
the American Voter Eligibility Protection (SAVE) Act in America The House approved the vote by a vote of 218 to 213. Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) was the only Democrat to join Republicans and vote yes.
President Trump strongly supports the bill and urged “all Republicans to fight” for the conservation law over the weekend, arguing in a post on Truth Social that the country’s elections are “rigged, stolen, and laughed all over the world.”
“Either we fix it, or we won’t have a country anymore,” the president asserted.
The Conservation Act, approved by House lawmakers last year, also requires states to remove noncitizens from their voter rolls and establishes criminal penalties for registering an applicant who fails to provide proof of U.S. citizenship to vote in federal elections.
“Our founders established our election processes 250 years ago, based on the simple and ultimate principle that only Americans should vote,” Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas), the bill’s sponsor, said on the House floor before the vote.
“But in this age of progressive and suicidal sympathies, basic concepts like voter ID and proof of citizenship have come under attack as oppressive,” he added.
Roy noted that polls show that Americans overwhelmingly support voter ID laws.
A A whopping 83% of US adults 71% of Democrats and 95% of Republicans support requiring some form of government-issued photo ID to vote, according to a Pew Research poll. Only 16% of American adults oppose it.
Critics of the bill say it will disenfranchise voters, especially women who change their names after marriage and people who have lost their birth certificates and other documents.
“It’s Jim Crow 2.0,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said of the conservation law in an interview with MS NOW earlier this month.
“This will still be something that disenfranchises people who don’t have the right REAL ID, or driver’s license ID, or who don’t have the ID necessary to vote even though they’re citizens,” Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) recently told ABC’s “This Week.”
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said that “Republicans have embraced voter suppression as an election strategy” when discussing the conservation bill during his weekly news conference on Monday.
“This is what the so-called savings law is all about,” Jeffries said.
The Democratic leader of the House of Representatives said that the current version of the bill is “worse than” the previous version, which received the support of four Democrats in the House of Representatives.
The Conservation Act faces long odds in the Senate, where it needs 60 votes to pass before it can head to Trump’s desk for his signature.
“Nothing is easy in the Senate,” Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) told reporters. “This is definitely not so.”
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R.S.D.) has indicated that there is not enough support in his caucus to eliminate the 60-vote requirement in the Senate, which would make it much easier to pass the Conservation Act.
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“(I)f we want to do it, this is the way we have to do it.” He told me.
