Hakeem Jeffries rejects GOP spending bill as 'unserious and unacceptable'
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House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries is rejecting a proposal Speaker Mike Johnson has put forward that links continued government funding for six months with a measure to require proof of citizenship when registering to vote.

Calling it “unserious and unacceptable,” House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries rejected on Monday a proposal from Speaker Mike Johnson that links continued government funding for six months with a measure to require proof of citizenship when registering to vote.

The response frames the spending battle to come over the next weeks as lawmakers work to reach consensus on a short-term spending bill that would prevent a partial government shutdown when the new fiscal year begins Oct. 1. Lawmakers hope to avoid a shutdown just weeks before voters go to the polls.

Johnson is punting the final decisions on full-year spending into next year when a new president and Congress take over. He’s doing so at the urging of members within his conference who believe that Republicans will be in a better position next year to secure the funding and policy priorities they want.

  • Snot FlickermanEnglish
    71·
    2 months ago

    require proof of citizenship when registering to vote.

    Calling it “unserious and unacceptable” is too nice. They need to call it like it is.

    “You purposefully are including what you know to be unworkable items so you can claim we don’t care about election integrity and shut down the government so you can scream ‘The Democrats are letting illegals vote’ which is clearly not true, or barring that, trying to muscle us into disenfranchising millions of US citizen voters.”