'Essential to our nation's sovereignty': Noncitizen voter crackdown led by GOP ahead of 2026 midterms

FIRST ON FOX: House Republicans are rolling retired a caller bundle of predetermination information authorities this week, with GOP lawmakers already mounting eyes on 2026.

Republican Study Committee Chairman August Pfluger, R-Texas, introduced the bills this week, with 4 lawmakers co-sponsoring the full bundle and assorted different members supporting circumstantial pieces.

The 3 pieces of authorities are a measure to prohibit noncitizen residents of Washington, D.C. from voting successful section elections, a measure to artifact noncitizens from helping administer elections, and a law amendment to forestall noncitizens from voting.

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Republican Study Committee Chairman August Pfluger is rolling retired a bid of bills to ace down connected noncitizens voting. (Getty Images)

It’s presently amerciable for noncitizens to ballot successful national elections. Though the instrumentality does not use to authorities and section elections, determination is presently nary authorities successful the U.S. that allows noncitizens to ballot successful statewide elections.

Some areas, however, let for noncitizens to ballot successful local-level elections – including Washington, D.C.

"Free and just elections are the cornerstone of our democracy, which is wherefore protecting them from noncitizen power is indispensable to our nation’s sovereignty and volition guarantee America has a flourishing ideology for decades to come," Pfluger told Fox News Digital.

"These bills are 3 commonsense steps we tin instrumentality to guarantee noncitizens are not influencing our elections by voting successful them oregon administering them. We indispensable safeguard the integrity of our electoral system, and these bills volition enactment to bash conscionable that."

Congress has jurisdiction implicit Washington, D.C. (Fox News Digital)

Earlier this year, House Republicans passed the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, which requires impervious of citizenship successful the elector registration process.

The bulk of Democrats person cried foul astatine GOP-led efforts to ace down connected noncitizen voting, with progressive lawmakers accusing Republicans of trying to dispersed uncertainty astir the country’s predetermination processes by targeting thing that’s already amerciable successful astir cases.

Democrats besides criticized Republicans for pushing bills similar the SAVE Act conscionable weeks earlier the November election. 

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But Pfluger and his GOP allies are present side-stepping that disapproval by introducing the bills good up of the 2026 midterm races, wherever humanities precedent suggests that House Republicans look an uphill conflict to keeping their majority.

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Among the co-sponsors of the full bundle is House Budget Chairman Jodey Arrington, R-Texas, who is playing a captious relation successful legislature Republicans’ efforts to walk a monolithic blimpish argumentation overhaul via the fund reconciliation process.

Border information and migration betterment are expected to beryllium a important portion of that forthcoming legislation.