Schumer Threatens To Shut Down Government So Republicans Can’t Stop Noncitizens From Voting
Brianna Lyman
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) threatened Monday to shut the government down unless Republicans drop their efforts to secure elections and keep noncitizens from voting.
Schumer said in a post on X: “The SAVE Act is nothing more than Jim Crow 2.0. It would disenfranchise millions of Americans. Every single Senate Democrat will vote against any bill that contains it. Speaker Johnson should tell SAVE Act Republicans to stand down or else this shutdown will be on them.”
The Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act would amend the 1993 National Voter Registration Act to require documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections. While the House previously passed the legislation (including with the support of four Democrats) it has stalled in the Senate. But as Congress debates a new spending bill ahead of a possible shutdown, Senate Majority Leader John Thune suggested there could possibly be efforts to vote on the SAVE Act as a standalone bill in the Senate.
While noncitizen voting is already illegal, current federal law is largely toothless. Prospective voters check a tiny square box on a federal voter registration form attesting under penalty of perjury that they are a citizen. Such an insecure system has led to thousands of noncitizens to either register to vote or even vote.
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https://thefederalist.com/2026/02/03/schumer-threatens-to-shut-down-government-so-republicans-cant-stop-noncitizens-from-voting/
