House Speaker Mike Johnson spoke with reporters hours before a vote on a government funding bill that is being coupled with a measure requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is warning that 'thousands' of people residing in the U.S. illegally could shift the tides in the upcoming U.S. elections. While speaking to reporters at his weekly press conference on Wednesday, Johnson pointed out that several members of the House GOP won their elections by just a few hundred votes – or less, as in the case of Rep. Marianette Miller Meeks, R-Iowa, who won her first election by just six votes.
We’re going to responsibly fund the government, and we're going to stop the noncitizens voting in elections,' Johnson said. Opponents of the SAVE Act have argued it is grounded in xenophobia and is needlessly duplicative, given it is already illegal for noncitizens to vote in federal elections.
It is against federal law for non-U.S. citizens to vote in U.S. elections. But we have no mechanism right now to ensure that in the states, because they're not allowed to ask for proof of verification of citizenship when someone registers to vote,' Johnson said. We've had a number of states already do audits. They found thousands of illegals already on the rolls. This is a serious problem because some of our elections are decided by razor-thin margins, as everyone in this room and the whole press corps knows.' Currently, 14 states plus Washington, D.C., do not require any documentation to vote at the polls, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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