House Republicans are gearing up for a showdown over government funding, with the conservative-backed SAVE Act at the center of the storm.
What is the SAVE Act? It would require proof of citizenship to register for federal elections. The House passed the bill in June, but it was never brought to a vote by the Democrat-controlled Senate.
The conflict: Republicans, including Speaker Mike Johnson and Donald Trump, want to tie the SAVE Act to the upcoming short-term funding package. The deadline to pass the package and avoid a government shutdown is September 30. The bill is overwhelmingly popular with Republicans, but some are concerned about the political fallout that could come from a shutdown just weeks before the election.
For it: Trump recently wrote on Truth Social: “DEMOCRATS ARE TRYING TO ‘STUFF’ VOTER REGISTRATIONS WITH ILLEGAL ALIENS. DON’T LET IT HAPPEN – CLOSE IT DOWN!!!”
Against it: Republicans in vulnerable House seats like Rep. Nick LaLota in New York said: “Allowing a shutdown means we could lose the House majority.”
It’s worth noting that some Republicans are against it, not because of the SAVE Act, but because they don’t want to pass a “continuing resolution” spending bill that continues funding the government at current reckless levels.
Big picture: Last month, we reported that Texas found over 6,000 illegal aliens on its voter rolls. Similarly, Virginia also found over 6,000 illegals on their voter rolls. The margins of the upcoming presidential election will be slim. A few thousand illegals voting could be the deciding factor in key swing states.
What happens next? The combo spending bill + SAVE Act was supposed to go to a vote yesterday, but Speaker Johnson pulled it because he did not have enough Republicans’ support.
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House Republicans are gearing up for a showdown over government funding, with the conservative-backed SAVE Act at the center of the storm.
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The House of Representatives is launching a new phase of the Election Observer Program designed to enhance transparency in the competitive fight for control of Congress. The initiative focuses on increasing accountability at the polls, particularly for races anticipated to have narrow margins in November.
Representative Bryan Steil (R-WI), Chair of the House Committee on Administration, expressed enthusiasm about the program’s expansion as the election approaches. “We’re excited to really ramp the program up, roll it out, as we come into the final eight weeks before the election,” Steil said. The program, which has been in use for several election cycles, allows congressional staffers to volunteer for poll watcher training. Upon request from congressional candidates, these trained observers can then be deployed to districts outside their own.
The Election Observer Program is part of a broader suite of efforts to maintain election security, which Steil prioritized during his tenure. “This is a program that’s been around for some time, and it’s been a successful program. My staff has participated in it, and I think it’s an important piece of the puzzle as we work to enhance the integrity and Americans’ confidence in our elections,” he stated.
Steil also highlighted the need to elevate the program’s visibility to ensure that candidates from both parties are aware of its availability. While the program has seen bipartisan participation in the past, Steil acknowledged that election integrity issues have become increasingly politicized.
In addition to the Election Observer Program, Steil has voiced concerns over a June executive order from Joe Biden to augment voter access with federal resources. He criticized the Biden-Harris government for what he perceives as a lack of transparency about its efforts, particularly in relation to noncitizenvoting.
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The House of Representatives is launching a new phase of the Election Observer Program designed to enhance transparency in the competitive fight for control of Congress. The initiative focuses on increasing accountability at the polls, particularly for races anticipated to have narrow margins in November.
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U.S. election officials again claim widespread delivery problems with the country’s mail system could cause election delays and disenfranchise voters. Similar claims were made by federal, state, and local election officials in the lead to the 2020 presidential election, though no significant delays occurred.
Claims of delayed mail processes that could impact the election have been used in the past—especially during the 2020 election—to obtain court orders or executive action to extend the early voting window or allow ballots received well after election day to be counted. Over the last several years, a series of court rulings found that many of these extensions and emergency changes in state election laws without the legislature’s approval were done unconstitutionally.
In a letter to U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, the officials claim issues they say happened during the recent primary elections were “not one-off mistakes or a problem with specific facilities. Instead, it demonstrates a pervasive lack of understanding and enforcement of USPS policies among its employees.” ‘
“We implore you to take immediate and tangible corrective action to address the ongoing performance issues with USPS election mail service,” the letter reads before adding: “Failure to do so will risk limiting voter participation and trust in the election process.”
The two organizations behind the letter are the National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS) and the National Association of State Election Directors (NASED). The former’s election committee comprises some of the country’s most partisan Secretaries of State, including Adrian Fontes. (D-AZ), Jena Griswold (D-CO), and anti-Trumper Brad Raffensperger (R-GA). Mary Vigil, a former Democrat aide in the New Mexico Attorney General’s office, serves as the current head of NASED.
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U.S. election officials again claim widespread delivery problems with the country's mail system could cause election delays and disenfranchise voters. Similar claims were made by federal, state, and local election officials in the lead to the 2020 presidential election, though no significant delays occurred.
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The Biden-Harris White House is threatening to veto government funding if House Republicans do not remove the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act from a continuing resolution (CR). House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is signaling he intends to advance a CR that amends current federal voter laws to prevent noncitizens from casting ballots in federal elections and funds the government through the next six months.
“It is already illegal for noncitizens to vote in Federal elections—it is a Federal crime punishable by prison and fines. This behavior is wrong and the law clearly prohibits it,” the Biden-Harris government claims in a statement addressing the funding bill. They continue: “In addition, making a false claim of citizenship or unlawfully voting in an election is punishable by removal from the United States and a permanent bar to admission.”
“States already have effective safeguards in place to verify voters’ eligibility and maintain the accuracy of voter rolls,” the White House statement adds.
Despite the Biden-Harris government’s insistence that noncitizens voting is not a concern, evidence of their illegal election participation is mounting. The National Pulse reported on Monday that the Biden-Harris Department of Justice (DOJ) is acknowledging they have in custody an illegal alien who fraudulently assumed an American citizen’s identity and used it to “vote in multiple elections and obtain multiple United States passports.”
Additionally, survey data suggests a statistically significant number of noncitizens are illegally casting ballots in U.S. federal elections, despite the ban on doing so, due to inadequate vetting. According to Rasmussen Reports, 97 percent of noncitizens polled acknowledged having voted for a candidate in the 2020 presidential election. The survey included 2,466 likely U.S. voters, of whom 222 either stated they were noncitizens or did not know their citizenship status—meaning 10 percent of the sample had dubious legal voting status.
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The Biden-Harris White House is threatening to veto government funding if House Republicans do not remove the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act from a continuing resolution (CR). House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is signaling he intends to advance a CR that amends current federal voter laws to prevent noncitizens from casting ballots in federal elections and funds the government through the next six months.
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Election officials in Montana have identified a significant overcount of votes during June’s primary, leading to the incorrect declaration of winners in two races. A post-canvassing audit of the Butte-Silver Bow County election revealed that 1,131 additional ballots had been cast compared to the total voters who participated. The vote inflation appears uniformly across the county’s various precincts.
The errors resulted in an incorrect winner being declared in a Republican precinct committeeman race and the wrong candidate being named in a county attorney general race as vote leader heading into a run-off election. State election officials have yet to determine the exact cause of the discrepancy.
However, County Clerk and Recorder Linda Sajor-Joyce is speculating the ballot overcount is the result of sample data not being cleared from the tabulation software. Even then, local news reports indicate Sajor-Joyce still cannot account for nearly a dozen mystery votes.
Election integrity activists stress the Montana situation as an example of the nationwide need for reconciliation processes when tabulating vote counts. The National Pulse recently reported that the Georgia State Election Board voted three to two on adopting a rule mandating the total number of votes cast to be reconciled with the total number of voters recorded for an election.
According to the rule, the total number of votes cast in each precinct must be reconciled with the total number of votes counted in the same precinct. If a discrepancy is found, the State Election Board will then determine the cause and develop a resolution in accordance with state law. The move comes in response to Fulton County, Georgia, having been found to have improperly scanned ballots in the 2020 election. Over 300,000 ballot images in the county remain missing.
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Election officials in Montana have identified a significant overcount of votes during June's primary, leading to the incorrect declaration of winners in two races. A post-canvassing audit of the Butte-Silver Bow County election revealed that 1,131 additional ballots had been cast compared to the total voters who participated. The vote inflation appears uniformly across the county's various precincts.
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An election security update issued by the Biden-Harris government’s Director of National Intelligence (DNI) contradicts—in part—Attorney General Merrick Garland and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher Wray’s claims that Russia is actively interfering in the 2024 U.S. presidential election. Specifically, the DNI notice states, “the [intelligence community] has not observed any foreign actors seeking to interfere in the conduct of the 2024 elections.”
“The interagency election security community assesses that it would be very difficult for a foreign actor to manipulate election processes at a large enough scale to impact the outcome of a federal election without detection by intelligence collection, post-election audits, or the physical and cybersecurity monitoring of the decentralized and diverse election infrastructure across the country,” the DNI report reads.
Late last week, Attorney General Garland and FBI Director Wray announced the Biden-Harris government is indicting two Russian nationals for violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). At a news conference announcing the prosecutions, both Garland and Wray insinuated the two Russian individuals were at the center of a plot to interfere in the U.S. election. However, the indictment itself details a broader scheme to inject pro-Russia talking points into American news and heighten partisan discord among the populace.
The DNI does state that there are foreign operations aimed at boosting preferred candidates—something that occurs in almost every U.S. presidential election. To this end, the intelligence community notes that foreign actors “sometimes use cyber tools to collect information that helps them… embarrass or denigrate particular candidates through leaks”—likely referring to a recent hacking of former President Donald J. Trump’s campaign by Iran. The hacked documents and emails were subsequently leaked to several media outlets—though they have chosen thus far not to publish the illicitly obtained material.
BREAKING: Director of National Intelligence says “to date, the IC has not observed any foreign actor seeking to interfere in the conduct of the 2024 elections.” pic.twitter.com/XtmG1prvja
An election security update issued by the Biden-Harris government's Director of National Intelligence (DNI) contradicts—in part—Attorney General Merrick Garland and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher Wray's claims that Russia is actively interfering in the 2024 U.S. presidential election. Specifically, the DNI notice states, "the [intelligence community] has not observed any foreign actors seeking to interfere in the conduct of the 2024 elections."
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The Biden-Harris Department of Justice (DOJ) has admitted an illegal alien fraudulently assumed an American citizen’s identity and used it to “vote in multiple elections and obtain multiple United States passports.” Angelica Maria Francisco, described as an “undocumented individual” by the DOJ, faces charges of “false claims of citizenship in connection with voting, false statements in application for a United States passport, use of a United States passport obtained by false statements, and aggravated identity theft.”
Originally from Guatemala, Francisco has reached a plea agreement with prosecutors and is expected to plead guilty at a to-be-scheduled court appearance. She is known to have registered to vote in Alabama in 2016 and to have voted in the 2016 and 2020 primary and general elections—but the DOJ did not disclose who she voted for.
Data analysis suggests a statistically significant number of noncitizens vote in U.S. elections despite being legally barred from doing so. Overwhelmingly, they vote for Democrats.
House Republican lawmakers have put forward a Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act requiring proof of citizenship when people register to vote so the U.S. citizenship requirements for voting can be effectively enforced. However, Senate Democrats and the Democrat-controlled White House oppose the reforms.
An outright majority of Americans believe the Biden-Harris government has allowed illegal immigration to reach unprecedented levels in the hope that it will create a “permanent majority” for the Democrats over time.
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The Biden-Harris Department of Justice (DOJ) has admitted an illegal alien fraudulently assumed an American citizen's identity and used it to "vote in multiple elections and obtain multiple United States passports." Angelica Maria Francisco, described as an "undocumented individual" by the DOJ, faces charges of "false claims of citizenship in connection with voting, false statements in application for a United States passport, use of a United States passport obtained by false statements, and aggravated identity theft."
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Democrat strategists with ties to the Barack Obama administration have launched a super PAC intended to preemptively delegitimize any concerns Republicans might raise about election integrity. The so-called Democracy Defenders group will fund and support legal battles around the 2024 election if former President Donald J. Trump and his supporters challenge dubious election results, as they did in 2020.
Jim Messina, Obama’s 2012 campaign manager, chairs the PAC. It also includes Norm Eisen, a key figure in Trump’s first sham impeachment. T.J. Ducklo, who previously worked for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, is stepping down from Harris’s presidential campaign to become the PAC’s chief strategist.
With an initial $10 million budget, Democracy Defenders is poised to flood the courts and media with resources to counter any Republican efforts to question election results. This suggests that they are already intent on dismissing any claims of irregularities, regardless of their merit.
While Democrats claim they need to “protect” the election from Trump, with Messina saying they won’t let Trump “undermine” the election, Democracy Defenders’ launch appears to be a preemptive strike against any attempts to ensure integrity and transparency in the voting process.
The Democratic Nation Committee (DNC) and state Democrats are already suing to stop the Georgia State Election Board from reconciling apparent voting discrepancies before certification, insisting concerns should only be raised after the fact.
There is solid evidence that mail-in voting, in particular, was plagued by fraud during the 2020 election—with one in five mail-in voters admitting they cast illegitimate votes in a major poll.
Democrat strategists with ties to the Barack Obama administration have launched a super PAC intended to preemptively delegitimize any concerns Republicans might raise about election integrity. The so-called Democracy Defenders group will fund and support legal battles around the 2024 election if former President Donald J. Trump and his supporters challenge dubious election results, as they did in 2020.
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The Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Georgia Democratic Party are suing to overturn election integrity regulations in Georgia with the support of Kamala Harris‘s campaign. The State Election Board has, with the help of new officials backed by Donald Trump, passed rules requiring the total number of votes cast to be reconciled with the total number of voters recorded before election results are certified, among other enhanced security measures.
This lawsuit is part of a broader Democratic effort to undermine election safeguards despite the party’s insistence that there is no widespread voter fraud in U.S. elections to worry about. It aims to prevent election officials from delaying the certification of results in November 2024, insisting they must be certified by a specific deadline regardless of any discrepancies.
The Democrats argue certification is a mere formality and that concerns about irregularities should only be addressed post-certification. Moreover, they are lobbying for the expulsion of the Trump-linked officials responsible for the new rules from the State Election Board altogether.
Democrats in Georgia may have an unusual ally in the Peach State’s Republican governor, Brian Kemp, who, along with Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, has proved remarkably resistant to investigating claims of voter fraud and voting machine vulnerabilities since 2020.
Governor Kemp is reportedly asking Attorney General Christopher Carr for “guidance” on legally removing the pro-election integrity officials.
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The Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Georgia Democratic Party are suing to overturn election integrity regulations in Georgia with the support of Kamala Harris's campaign. The State Election Board has, with the help of new officials backed by Donald Trump, passed rules requiring the total number of votes cast to be reconciled with the total number of voters recorded before election results are certified, among other enhanced security measures.
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Meta CEO and Chairman Mark Zuckerberg is admitting that his social media platform, Facebook, was pressured by the Biden-Harris government to censor Americans who posted about the COVID-19 pandemic on his website. Additionally, the tech billionaire acknowledges that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had warned them about potential Russian disinformation regarding Burisma and the Biden family, which directly resulted in the New York Post‘s Hunter Biden laptop story being suppressed on Facebook.
The admissions come in a letter from Zuckerberg to House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH). This appears to be the most definitive acknowledgment by the social media titan yet of the scale and depth of the Biden-Harris government and FBI‘s role in censoring American citizens and the free press.
COVID CENSORSHIP.
“In 2021, senior officials from the Biden Administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire, and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn’t agree,” the Meta CEO and Facebook founder writes. Zuckerberg continues, acknowledging it was ultimately his company’s decision to censor users: “I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it… we’re ready to push back if something like this happens again.”
THE LAPTOP FROM HELL.
Addressing Facebook‘s interference in the 2020 presidential race by suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story just weeks before election day, Zuckerberg again pointed the finger at the federal government—namely the FBI.
“In a separate situation, the FBI warned us about a potential Russian disinformation operation about the Biden family and Burisma in the lead up to the 2020 election,” Zuckerberg states, while contending that the FBI briefing is what directly led to his company’s decision to percent users from seeing the New York Poststory. He adds: “It’s since been made clear that the reporting was not Russian disinformation, and in retrospect, we shouldn’t have demoted the story.”
The National Pulse’s Facebook account has been virtually unusable since we were one of the first outlets to meaningfully report from the hard drive.
Zuckerberg told Chairman Jordan that Facebook has subsequently changed its policies and that news stories will no longer be demoted while being reviewed by the social media platform’s fact-checkers.
ELECTION DONATIONS.
In the final part of his letter to Chairman Jordan, Zuckerberg promises to end his donations to progressive-controlled election groups like the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL), first exposed here on The National Pulse five years ago.
“Apart from content moderation, I want to address the contributions I made during the last presidential election cycle to support electoral infrastructure,” the Meta Chairman and CEO writes, adding: “I know that some people believe this work benefited one party over another. My goal is to be neutral and play a role one way or another—or even appear to be playing a role.”
Zuckerberg concludes: “So I don’t plan on making a similar contribution this cycle.”
The National Pulse has previously reported that Zuckerberg‘s contributions have helped fund an army of pro-Democratic Party election workers and poll watchers who have been instrumental in blocking Republican-backed election integrity efforts. Democratic Party corporate media allies have tried to claim Republicans “weaponized Mark Zuckerberg’s donations,” however his admission to Jordan suggests the Republican accusations are true.
READ:
Mark Zuckerberg just admitted three things:
1. Biden-Harris Admin "pressured" Facebook to censor Americans.
2. Facebook censored Americans.
3. Facebook throttled the Hunter Biden laptop story.
— House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@JudiciaryGOP) August 26, 2024
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Meta CEO and Chairman Mark Zuckerberg is admitting that his social media platform, Facebook, was pressured by the Biden-Harris government to censor Americans who posted about the COVID-19 pandemic on his website. Additionally, the tech billionaire acknowledges that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had warned them about potential Russian disinformation regarding Burisma and the Biden family, which directly resulted in the New York Post's Hunter Biden laptop story being suppressed on Facebook.show more
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I find it especially funny given that this website you are reading right now was at the cutting edge of most of these issues many years ago, but of course, the kudos will now go to the Congressmen who failed to heed our warnings and the internet influencers and conservative establishment websites that only cottoned on several years later show more
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