Overview
- House leaders scheduled the measure for floor action this week, with the Rules Committee meeting Tuesday to advance the bill.
- The proposal would require documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to register for federal elections, mandate government-issued photo ID to vote, end mail-only registration, and direct states to remove noncitizens from voter rolls.
- President Donald Trump publicly pressed Republicans to back the effort and called for sharply limiting mail-in ballots to narrow exceptions.
- Senate Republicans are weighing a talking-filibuster strategy under Rule 19 to force floor debate, though the bill still faces a 60-vote hurdle to proceed.
- Democrats led by Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer, and Adam Schiff oppose the measure as voter suppression, even as polls show broad support for voter ID, and voting-rights groups warn the plan is an unfunded mandate that risks disenfranchising eligible voters.