The House did its job more than once. It passed the budget resolution, then it passed the defense bill with the full SAVE America Act attached. Both are sitting in the Senate. Fifty senators are already on record supporting proof of citizenship to register and voter ID to cast a ballot. The votes are not the problem. The calendar is. Jenny Beth Martin opens the hour on what has to happen this week, and on what Kamala Harris put on the table this weekend at the National Urban League.
Jenny Beth is joined by Drew DiMeglio, a student at Hampden-Sydney College, president of his College Republicans, and a writer for Restoration News, the Carolina Journal, and The College Fix; Houston Gaines, Georgia state representative and Republican nominee for Georgia's 10th Congressional District; and Jim Pfaff, President of The Conservative Caucus.
Today's topics:
• Five days left in the Senate session, with the SAVE America Act, the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, still waiting for a floor vote
• Fifty senators already on record for proof of citizenship and voter ID, and the two House-passed vehicles now sitting in the Senate
• New Jersey admits 6,600 noncitizens ended up on its voter rolls through a software error and still refuses to check against the federal citizenship database
• Trump v. California at the Supreme Court, where the challenger states' response on mail-ballot citizenship verification is due by 4:00 PM ET today
• Twenty-three states and the District of Columbia fighting the executive order, and whether the Court takes it up before November
• Primaries tomorrow in Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Virginia, and Washington, with Michigan's Democratic Senate primary the one to watch
• South Carolina's special Republican primary eight days out with nine candidates in the field
• Kamala Harris calls to revisit the Electoral College, expand the Supreme Court to 13 justices, and grant statehood to Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia
• Drew DiMeglio on his piece "Gen Z's Socialist Swing Cannot Be Ignored" and where his generation's distrust of institutions actually comes from
• What the COVID years did to Gen Z, and what it meant to watch Anthony Fauci take the Fifth Amendment in front of the Senate
• How the Democratic Socialists are reaching young Americans, why the pitch is landing, and the conservative answer that competes with "free"
• Houston Gaines on his district, his top issues, and what he hears at the doors in Georgia's 10th
• The affordability squeeze: inflation and cost of living as voters' number-one issue at 23.9 percent, with core inflation still running plus 3.3 percent year over year
• Jim Pfaff on how seriously Americans should take a former presidential nominee calling for gutting the Electoral College and packing the Court
• Why Jenny Beth says the socialist surge on the left is not a Tea Party moment, and why getting that comparison right matters
• Todd Blanche's attorney general confirmation back on track with a committee vote tomorrow morning, the Iran talks restarting, and cyberattacks on municipal water systems in Minnesota and Michigan
• Jenny Beth closes on Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Dana Bash, and the Declaration of Independence: governments are instituted to secure our rights, and a crisis is exactly when that duty matters most
• Call to action: dial the Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121 and tell both of your senators to stay in session and pass the SAVE America Act before they leave town
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