Overview
- Rep. Brandon Gill and 34 House Republicans urged Senate Rules Chair Mitch McConnell to schedule a committee markup and move the bill before the 2026 midterms.
- Sen. Chuck Schumer said Democrats will go all out to defeat the legislation, calling it a poison pill and warning that attaching it to appropriations would trigger a shutdown fight.
- The bill passed the House 220–208 in April 2025, has 48 Republican cosponsors in the Senate, and still appears short of the 60 votes likely needed to overcome a filibuster.
- Voting-rights advocates say the proof-of-citizenship requirement would force many married women with name changes to produce extra documents such as marriage certificates, with added burdens for low-income, Native American, and territorial voters.
- Republicans frame the plan as an election-integrity safeguard as some push a broader SAVE America Act adding photo ID, while critics cite scant evidence of noncitizen voting and Kansas’s blocked proof-of-citizenship law as cautionary precedent.