The GOP’s sweeping new anti-voting bill cleared the U.S. House Wednesday, setting up a high-stakes battle in the Senate.
The GOP’s push for the measure was driven by blatantly false claims.
“They feel they’ve got to allow illegals to participate in elections so they can continue to win,” Speaker Mike Johnson said on Fox Wednesday.
Republican election officials have recently corroborated that with a series of lengthy reviews showing it’s a virtually nonexistent problem.
Ahead of the vote, the GOP adopted a “manager’s amendment” from House Administration Chairman Bryan Steil (R-Wisc.)
On Tuesday, the House Administration Committee held a hearing on another GOP voter ID bill, the Make Elections Great Act.
But some political pundits have questioned that, arguing that stopped being true when Trump took over the GOP. »