Embattled Speaker Mike Johnson Touts ‘Election Integrity’ Bill as Trump Looms Over His Shoulder
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) joined former President Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate to promote new legislation that will require “proof of citizenship to vote.”
Johnson spoke at a press conference as the presumptive Republican nominee loomed over his shoulder. The legislation, which appeared to please Trump, comes as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) seeks to oust Johnson with a motion to vacate.
Johnson said the bill will require proof of citizenship to vote to mitigate voter fraud. Trump has falsely claimed the 2020 election was rigged against him and he has put that allegation front and center.
It is already illegal for non-citizens in the U.S. to vote in federal elections, and there is no evidence showing widespread cases of undocumented citizens voting.
“One of the first questions that people ask about is this issue of election integrity,” Johnson said while blaming President Joe Biden for the influx of migrants at the border. “And election integrity is tied to border, the lack of border security.”
Johnson also noted that the bill will provide states with databases from Homeland Security and the Social Security Administration to help them enforce the proposed law”
I’m going to announce to you today here, standing alongside President Trump, that we will do everything within our power to ensure that we do have free and fair elections in this country. If we don’t have that in a constitutional republic, we have nothing. It’s the basis of who we are as a nation, and we owe that to the American people. And so what we’re going to do is introduce legislation to require that every single person who registers to vote in a federal election must prove that they’re an American citizen first. They have to prove it. That will be a new part of the federal law, and a very important one.
Our bill will establish new safeguards that will put us on par, by the way, with virtually every other democracy around the world that also prohibits non-citizen voting. And this is a critical thing for us to do at a very critical time. Our bill also will require states to remove non-citizens from their existing voter rolls. That’s a big problem, too. And it will provide access to databases from the Department of Homeland Security and the Social Security Administration to help the states administer this as the entity that is responsible for regulating federal elections. Congress has this responsibility. We cannot wait for widespread fraud to occur, especially when the threat of it is growing with every single illegal immigrant that crosses that border.
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