The far-right House Freedom Caucus is gearing up for a government-shutdown fight at the end of September and a chaotic lame-duck session aft
If the increasingly demented and hideous Weird Donald Trump isn't enough to scare voters away from the Republican Party, there's also the House Freedom Caucus planning to disrupt Congress when it returns from summer break.
The far-right House Freedom Caucus is gearing up for a government-shutdown fight at the end of September and a chaotic lame-duck session after the election, no matter who wins. “In the inevitability that Congress considers a Continuing Resolution,” the House Freedom Caucus said in a statement Monday, referring to a possible short-term spending bill, “government funding should be extended into early 2025 to avoid a lame duck omnibus [bill] that preserves Democrat spending and policies well into the next administration.” They want this so that “Democrats cannot undermine President [Donald] Trump’ second term,” in which Trump would expectedly obliterate the funding agreements that President Joe Biden and Congress made for the 2025 fiscal year. That’s not their only demand, though. In the statement, the Freedom Caucus also said the continuing resolution should include bogus legislation to prevent noncitizens from voting. The Freedom Caucus called on Republican House leadership to "use our leverage in the September spending fight to prevent non-citizens from voting in our elections." Noncitizens don’t vote, of course. As the Brennan Center for Justice explains, it’s a “federal crime for noncitizens to vote in federal elections. It’s also a crime under every state’s laws. In fact, under federal law, you could face up to five years in prison simply for registering to vote. It’s also a deportable offense for noncitizens to register or vote.”
About as many non-citizens vote in the US as there are occasions when Donald Trump is truthful and humble at the same time.
Noncitizen Voting Is Already Illegal — and Vanishingly Rare
GOP allegations of vote fraud are an attempt to pander to Trump's delusional obsession with the 2020 election. He just can't handle the fact that he's a LOSER.
Trump hired me to find election fraud in Arizona. Here's what I found instead
Conservative group finds ‘absolutely no evidence of widespread fraud’ in 2020 election
Vote fraud and election tampering are far more common among Republicans.
The Pattern of GOP Voter Fraud
This is hardly recent behavior on the part of Republicans. NPR's This American Life in 2004 did a segment (Episode 276, Act Two) on election sabotage.
Cold-cock The Vote (transcript – scroll down to Act Two)
Weird Donald has hijacked the GOP. Eric Trump's wife is now co-chair of the Republican National Committee. They do little these days which does not involve kowtowing to Weird Donald and his bizarre whims. House Speaker "MAGA Mike" Johnson will be doing what he can to placate the Dear Leader's kinks when Congress returns.