{"id":38455,"date":"2025-04-10T16:48:48","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T16:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/10\/us-house-passes-bill-requiring-people-to-prove-citizenship-in-order-to-vote\/"},"modified":"2025-04-10T16:48:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T16:48:48","slug":"us-house-passes-bill-requiring-people-to-prove-citizenship-in-order-to-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/10\/us-house-passes-bill-requiring-people-to-prove-citizenship-in-order-to-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"US House passes bill requiring people to prove citizenship in order to vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Supporters say bill is aimed at preventing noncitizens from voting in US elections, but critics say it\u2019s voter suppression<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/apr\/10\/donald-trump-executive-order-shipping-tariffs-pause-us-politics-latest-updates-news\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The US House approved a bill on Thursday that would require people to prove they are citizens when they register to vote, which opponents claim <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/01\/save-act-republicans-trump-noncitizen-voting\">could disfranchise millions<\/a> of Americans.<\/p>\n<p>The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, or the Save Act, which was approved on a 220-208 vote, is aimed at eliminating rare instances of noncitizens voting in US elections based on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/oct\/03\/trump-republicans-non-citizen-voters-myth-stolen-election\">false belief<\/a> that large numbers of noncitizens are voting.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/10\/safeguard-american-voter-act-house-bill\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supporters say bill is aimed at preventing noncitizens from voting in US elections, but critics say it\u2019s voter suppression US politics live \u2013 latest updates The US House approved a bill on Thursday that would require people to prove they are citizens when they register to vote, which opponents claim could disfranchise millions of Americans. &#8230; <a title=\"US House passes bill requiring people to prove citizenship in order to vote\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/10\/us-house-passes-bill-requiring-people-to-prove-citizenship-in-order-to-vote\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US House passes bill requiring people to prove citizenship in order to vote\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}