House Speaker Mike Johnson will be attaching a special amendment to the funding bill that must pass Congress by September 30 to avoid a government shutdown.

Good for him.

This is one of the issues you “go to the mattresses on.” Let liberals explain why they’re willing to shut the government down in order to make it easier for illegal immigrants to vote.

The Safeguard American Vote (SAVE) Act would require proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in federal elections. While it is already illegal for non-citizens to vote, an increasing number are registering to vote anyway. Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin just announced he was removing 6,303 noncitizens who had “accidentally or maliciously” joined the voter rolls.

Arizona now requires proof of citizenship for elections to state office but not federal, under a recent 5 to 4 decision by the US Supreme Court that will allow 41,000 “federal-only” voters to vote in this year’s presidential election:

All over the country, there is concern that election officials are turning a blind eye to non-citizen voting. Eight states – North Carolina, Wisconsin, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, Oklahoma, and South Carolina – will be voting this November on “Citizen Voting Only” amendments to their state constitution.

After a Citizen Only Voting Amendment passed the Texas Senate 29-1 earlier this year, Democrats blocked it in the House. And in Vermont, Democrats overrode the Republican governor’s veto to award non-citizens the vote in three cities.