WASHINGTON — President Trump is putting America first and demanding simple proof that only American citizens decide American elections. A handful of Senate Republicans—led by North Carolina’s own Thom Tillis—just joined hands with Democrats to sabotage the effort.
On Thursday, Trump drew a hard line in the sand. The president abruptly canceled the signing ceremony for a massive bipartisan housing bill that sailed through Congress with overwhelming support: Senate 85-5, House 258-32.
“Today’s Housing News Conference and Signing is hereby cancelled until such time as we pass the desperately needed SAVE AMERICA ACT, which I consider to be a National Emergency,” Trump declared.
The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, H.R. 22, requires documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in federal elections and a valid ID at the polls. The measure has already passed the House. Yet Senate Majority Leader John Thune refuses to force a vote, claiming Republicans can’t reach 50.
The Gateway Pundit pressed Sen. Thom Tillis directly on why he’s leading the charge to kill the bill—especially when Americans already need ID to drive, buy alcohol, board a plane, buy a gain, open a bank account or get a job.
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Tillis sneered:
It’s quite simple. It’s a math problem. We simply don’t have the votes… Does any rational person who’s ever had any experience with implementing election law really think that it’s possible to have all that in place in time for this election and not be disruptive? And incidentally, it’s an unfunded mandate that has zero dollars for implementation.
He dismissed House Republican leverage as “super cute,” suggested pointless pilot programs in Utah and whined that President Trump should handle differences with GOP leadership behind closed doors instead of “forcing ten or twelve cameras” on him.
This is the same Thom Tillis who, along with Mitch McConnell, Susan Collins, and Lisa Murkowski, helped tank the latest attempt to advance the SAVE Act in early June—voting 48-50 to kill Sen. Lindsey Graham’s amendment to a border funding reconciliation bill.
DOCUMENTED CASES OF NON-CITIZEN VOTING
Non-citizen voting is already happening. In Texas alone, Attorney General Ken Paxton is investigating more than 100 potential non-citizens who cast over 200 ballots in the 2020 and 2022 elections. Federal prosecutors in New Jersey recently charged four resident aliens with illegally voting in federal elections between 2020 and 2024. Similar prosecutions have occurred in North Carolina, Florida and elsewhere.
These are not hypotheticals, but real instances of of foreign nationals attempting to influence American elections..
Under Trump, the border is more secure than at any point in modern history. But what about the millions who were released into the interior of the United States under Biden— are they deciding our elections right now?
DEMOCRATS PRIORITIZE ILLEGALS
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-MO, laid bare the grotesque two-tiered system Democrats created: Under Biden-era policies, illegals aliens were allowed to board commercial flights using arrest warrants as valid ID while law abiding American citizens waited in long security lines like the second-class passengers at the back of the bus.
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That tells you everything you need to know about why Democrats and their RINO enablers fight so hard against proof of citizenship to vote. They prioritize illegal aliens over American citizens, and they clearly don’t want any mechanism that might stop those same illegals from casting ballots.
If these same illegal aliens now want to vote in our elections, who exactly is going to stop them?
Not Thom Tillis. Not the RINOs standing with him. Some in North Carolina are already asking the uncomfortable question: Is Tillis still in office because illegal aliens are helping elect him?
The Shameful Hypocrisy That Should Embarrass Every One of Them
Democrats spent years demanding vaccine passports and proof of jab status—treating every American citizen like a potential threat unless they showed their papers. Now the same crowd clutches their pearls at the terrifying idea that you should prove you’re a citizen before voting in American elections.
Their real message is unmistakable: Democrats are openly telling their own voters, “You’re too stupid, too disorganized and too incompetent to obtain a simple ID.” And remarkably, their base doesn’t seem offended–they nod along as if being treated like helpless children is perfectly normal. They believe their voters lack both the intellect to see the breathtaking intellectual dishonesty and the basic responsibility to get an ID. And these Senate RINOs are standing right in their shadow, happily enabling the insult.
In deep-blue New York City, where far-left socialists just swept key elections, police can stop you and demand identification under stop-and-frisk policies, and you’ll struggle to do much of anything without proper ID. Yet somehow, proving you’re a citizen to vote is suddenly “voter suppression”?
The American people are noticing. History will record exactly who chose cheap politics over election integrity.
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