Hard-line conservatives expect Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) will embrace their favored tactic by bringing a stopgap bill to the House floor next week that includes a proof-of-citizenship voting bill and would extend government funding into 2025.
Such a move would not only grant a win to the House GOP’s conservative wing, but would tee up a showdown with the Democratic-controlled Senate and White House, which both object to the voting bill. Congress faces a Sept. 30 deadline to prevent a shutdown.
Johnson’s office has not confirmed the funding plan, but Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) — a key member of the House Freedom Caucus who has been in discussions with leadership as he advocates for the strategy — is publicly expressing confidence about the next step.
Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.), another Freedom Caucus member, said that while he has not heard directly from the Speaker, he is hearing from “very good sources” that the SAVE Act will be included in a CR package.
It is not just Senate Democrats, though. Axios reported last week that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) also opposes the plan. Other House Republicans have expressed skepticism about pairing GOP proposals with a government funding bill, too.
But the length of the stopgap is perhaps the more critical portion. Hard-line conservatives want government funding to extend into 2025 in order to avoid an end-of-year omnibus spending package under a lame-duck Biden presidency, hoping to set a potential new Trump administration up to quickly slash spending.
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Is there a way for Democrats to flip the script on voter ID? Like go for a “sure, requiring IDs is fine, but we’ll subsidize them so the cost is either $0 or negligible.” Given how many people have IDs already, it wouldn’t cost very much and would put Republicans in a bind.
I wouldn’t mind ID voting if we had a proper national ID card system (which we should have anyways [like real countries](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian_identity_card))