By Kanishka Singh<\/p>\n
WASHINGTON, March 22 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday any Department of Homeland Security funding \u200cdeal should not be made until Democrats in Congress \u200capprove a bill that requires people registering to vote to provide proof of U.S. \u200bcitizenship.<\/p>\n
Trump said he does not “think any deal should be made on this until they approve Save America,” a NewsNation reporter posted on X on Sunday, quoting Trump’s remarks from an interview.<\/p>\n
The bill requiring proof \u200cof citizenship for voter \u2060registration is called the Save America Act. It currently lacks the 60 votes needed to overcome Democratic \u2060opposition in the 100-member Senate, where Republicans hold 53 seats.<\/p>\n
Trump also said he was prepared to deploy agents from the U.S. Immigration and \u200bCustoms \u200bEnforcement, which is part of DHS, \u200bat airports “for as long \u200cas it takes,” according to NewsNation. Trump this weekend said he would put ICE agents in airports until Democratic lawmakers agree to fund DHS.<\/p>\n
“Now that I did this, the Democrats want to make a deal. And I don’t think any deal should be made \u200con this until they approve SAVE \u200bAmerica,” Trump was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n
Proponents of \u200bthe bill have argued \u200bit would help deter voter fraud. Republicans have echoed \u200cTrump’s false claim that large \u200bnumbers of people \u200bwho are in the country illegally vote in U.S. elections.<\/p>\n
Democrats and other critics of the bill have argued that it \u200bcould disenfranchise Americans who \u200clack ready access to passports, birth certificates and other \u200bforms of identification.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Washington; Editing \u200bby Sergio Non and Stephen Coates)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, March 22 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday any Department of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,115258,36525,12,3,242027,242026,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-540697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-democratic-lawmakers","tag-department-of-homeland-security","tag-donald-trump","tag-news","tag-proof-of-citizenship","tag-save-america","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}