Tens of thousands of noncitizens are registered to vote and have voted, House members and testifying experts asserted Tuesday. 

A House subcommittee held a hearing Tuesday, titled “The  Biden-Harris Border Crisis: Noncitizen Voting,” that examined noncitizen voting and the nation’s porous border. 

The hearing comes as House Republicans push to include safeguards to ensure that only U.S. citizens vote as part of a continuing resolution to keep funding the government. 

The Justice Department announced Sept. 5 that an illegal immigrant from Guatemala would plead guilty after being charged with falsely assuming the identity of a U.S. citizen in 2011 and illegally voting in multiple Alabama elections over the years. 

My book “The Myth of Suppression” details past instances where noncitizen voting affected the outcome of local elections. 

Here are four big moments from the hearing held by the House Judiciary subcommittee on the Constitution and limited government. 

1. ‘What If It’s Your Vote?’

The 1993 National Voter Registration Act and the 2002 Help America Vote Act make it “virtually impossible to prevent noncitizens from registering to vote either accidentally or intentionally,” testified Rosemary Jenks, policy director of the Immigration Accountability Project.

“Neither a driver’s license nor a Social Security number provides proof of U.S. citizenship,” Jenks said. “All 50 states and the District of Columbia issue driver’s licenses—including Real IDs—to lawfully present noncitizens, while 19 states also issue driver’s licenses to illegal aliens. Every alien authorized to work in the United States is eligible for an SSN. The Biden-Harris administration has been handing out work authorizations like candy to inadmissible aliens, with SSN issuances following close behind.”

Noting the ease with which illegal immigrants may register to vote, she turned the questions to the House panel.

“Why is it OK if even one American citizen’s vote is canceled by an illegal vote? What if it’s your vote?” Jenks asked lawmakers. 

 2. ‘Stoke Anti-Immigrant Fear’

Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, insisted that noncitizen voting isn’t a “widespread” problem.

“Republicans rely on the false premise that there is widespread noncitizen voting in order to advance dangerous legislation like the SAVE Act and other burdensome, unnecessary measures requiring proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections,” Nadler said. 

The SAVE Act is short for the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act. If enacted and signed into law, the Republican-sponsored bill would amend the 1993 National Voter Registration Act, also known as the “motor voter law,” to require that states obtain documentary proof of U.S. citizenship before anyone can register to vote.

Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon, D-Pa., accused Republican lawmakers of a “propaganda campaign.”

“Bills combating noncitizen voting are really about politics, not policy,” Scanlon said. “These bills are not rooted in reality, but are widely used to stoke anti-immigrant fear.”

House Republicans’ proposed amendment to the spending bill would accomplish the same objective as the measure that passed that GOP-controlled chamber in July. Senate Democrats, who control the upper chamber, opposed the bill. 

If the two sides can’t agree now, it could lead to a partial shutdown of the government. 

Election lawyer Cleta Mitchell, founder and chair of the Foundation for Accountability and Integrity in Elections Fund, questioned Democrats’ continued rationale for opposing the SAVE Act. 

“Democrats oppose the SAVE Act, ostensibly because it is already illegal for noncitizens to vote in a federal election,” Mitchell testified. “And it is illegal for millions of people to swarm across our borders without documentation, but nonetheless, this administration under border czar Kamala Harris has adopted just such a policy of opening the door and letting anyone and everyone into the country. Illegally. Already against federal law.”

She added that Democrats’ goal is to “change the electorate.”

“If they can’t persuade the American people to want their Marxist policies for America, just import voters who don’t speak the language, don’t have a shared commitment to our country and our national principles, get them into the very porous voter registration system, and collect their votes,” Mitchell said. 

3. ‘Only Take a Few Thousand’

Subcommittee Chairman Chip Roy, R-Texas, referred to a 2014 study by Old Dominion University and George Mason University. It estimated that 6.4% of noncitizens—or 1.2 million at the time—illegally voted in the 2008 election. That number might have tipped a U.S. Senate race in Minnesota that year, as well as the presidential vote in North Carolina. 

“It would only take a few thousand noncitizens voting—much less than the 1.2 million estimated—to impact the outcome of razor thin elections,” Roy said.

In the 2020 election, Joe Biden carried Arizona over Donald Trump by 10,000 votes, Georgia by 12,000 votes, Wisconsin by 20,000 votes, and Pennsylvania by 81,000 votes. 

“The other side likes to point out it is already illegal for noncitizens to vote. That is technically true. They fail to mention that the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 literally prohibits states from verifying citizenship during the voter registration process,” Roy said. “This means it is impossible to enforce the law on the front end. Consequently, the primary defense against noncitizens registering to vote is a literal box-checking exercise on a voter registration form.”

The Texas Republican noted that since 2021 Texas has removed about 6,500 noncitizens from voter rolls, 1,900 of whom had voting histories. Since 2022, Virginia has removed 6,300 noncitizens from its rolls, Alabama removed 3,251 noncitizens, and Ohio 597, Roy added. 

4. Federal Government ‘Only Impediment’ 

Florida Secretary of State Cord Byrd reminded the House subcommittee of the close 2000 presidential election decided in Florida by just 537 votes. 

“Miami-Dade County alone, Florida’s largest county, has over 715 precincts. A single illegal noncitizen vote in each precinct can change the outcome of a presidential election,” Byrd said.

Byrd, a Republican, cited the 2006 bipartisan election reform report led by former President Jimmy Carter, a Democrat, and former Secretary of State James Baker, a Republican, that called for preventing noncitizen voting. 

“Every illegitimate vote of a noncitizen negates the legitimate vote of a citizen,” Byrd said. “Nationally, preventing noncitizens from registering to vote and voting is the number one priority of states committed to election integrity.”

He said Florida has prosecuted noncitizens who attempt to fraudulently vote in an election. 

“Floridians have changed our state Constiution. We have strengthened our laws. We have engaged in litigation. And we have an office dedicated to investigating election crimes,” Byrd said. “The only impediment to doing more is the federal government. That’s why states need action from our congressional leaders.”

Mitchell, head of the Foundation for Accountability and Integrity in Elections Fund, added that Republicans’ SAVE Act would be important in the 22 states that allow same-day voter registration.

“This requirement will interrupt one of the biggest threats to the integrity of the 2024 election: the organized roundup by left-wing advocacy groups of scores of illegals to register and vote them on the same day, before anyone can determine if the individuals were eligible to vote in the election,” Mitchell said. 

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The United States’ federal debt has soared to $35.3 trillion. In less than a year, the federal government has increased that debt by $1.9 trillion. That occurred during years of record tax revenues and acceptable economic growth.

If the current administration remains in power, the Treasury’s own estimates predict an additional $16 trillion increase in debt by 2034, without accounting for any recession or slowdown in tax receipts. According to the Congressional Budget Office, Vice President Kamala Harris’ economic plan would add another $1.9 trillion to $2.2 trillion to the national debt.

The Harris campaign has not even bothered to discuss a plan to balance the budget. She just said that “efficiency” and the old fallacy of higher taxes on the rich would pay for the increase in spending—two things that have proven to do nothing to the ballooning debt and that do not even start to scratch the already unsustainable $2 trillion annual deficit.

This reckless increase in debt is happening in an economic growth period. However, if we adjust for government debt accumulation, 2021 to 2024 were the worst years of growth, adjusted for debt, since the 1930s.

In a recent article, economist Claudia Sahm stated that we shouldn’t worry about debt. “Debt is neither inherently good nor bad,” she wrote in an opinion column for Bloomberg back in January. “As such, the question is not what’s the right level of borrowing, but rather what’s the economic return on the borrowing or the societal goals it advances.”

She went on to say that “the government can easily service its debt because of its unlimited taxing authority and ability to issue more U.S. Treasury securities to repay maturing securities.”

Now you must worry. A lot.

Unproductive Borrowing ‘Inherently’ Bad

Let us start with the benign idea of “economic return on borrowing and societal goals.” The evidence from the United States indicates that the economic return is extremely low. Entitlement spending has not strengthened the economic growth path, and debt continues to rise faster than gross domestic product.

It’s true that debt is not inherently bad, but unproductive borrowing is. It’s a massive transfer of wealth from the productive sector to the bloated bureaucratic state.

Furthermore, the societal goals cannot be unlimited. The government must administer and not just add expenditures to previous expenditures, particularly when there is no realistic analysis of the success or failure of government programs.

The idea that a particular government program is beneficial is not enough to add it to the budget without reducing other expenses. Not even a benign view of government spending as Sahm’s can justify that every government expenditure item today is essential.

Furthermore, we must always understand that governments do not give money for free. They tax the productive sector and borrow, which means printing a currency that is constantly losing purchasing power. Therefore, the government is not advancing societal goals by borrowing without control. It is implementing a profoundly regressive policy that creates a dependent subclass and makes it increasingly difficult for the middle class to thrive.

Economic, Fiscal, and Inflationary Limits

It’s false that the government has “unlimited” taxing authority and the ability to issue more debt, i.e., print money.

The government has economic, fiscal, and inflationary limits: Economic, because constantly increasing taxation leads to stagnation and more debt; fiscal, because expenditures are consolidated and annualized, while tax receipts are cyclical; and inflationary, because the constant issuance of new currency, which is what happens when more debt is issued, leads to the loss of confidence in the currency and the erosion of its purchasing power.

If what Sahm states were true, the euro area and Japan would be examples of high growth and economic strength, but they are examples of stagnation, high debt, and rising social discontent.

The government does not set taxes to fund its incessant spending habits. Taxes should be set according to the economic reality of an economy. The fallacy of taxes on the rich and corporations does not even address the ballooning deficit and erodes economic growth and productive investment.

When someone tells you not to worry about record debt, you should be extremely concerned. When they say that the government has unlimited resources, they mean that you will pay by becoming poorer with more taxes, more inflation, lower growth, or all three at the same time.

When they tell you that $35 trillion of debt is peanuts compared with $142 trillion of American wealth, they are saying that the government will be pleased to absorb the wealth of the economy. You will pay.

Private Sector Isn’t an ATM

When they tell you that tax cuts are the problem, it comes from the perspective that the private sector is an ATM at the disposal of governments.

Tax cuts do not reduce revenues, just as tax hikes do not raise them forever. Tax cuts adjust the taxable base to the real economy in order to encourage more investment and growth.

Tax cuts are not a loss for the government. They are a win for the economy. It is simply a return of funds to those who have earned them. The idea that funds are better in the hands of the government than in the pockets of those who earned them is confiscatory.

It’s ludicrous to think that the government knows better than the private sector where and how to spend money. Additionally, it’s insane to believe that the government will not squander the funds and bloat the administrative costs.

Furthermore, it’s foolish to assume that corporations and the affluent will hoard unused funds. There’s no such thing as idle money. Capital markets and the private banking sector invest all of their earnings in a productive economy.

If Sahm is concerned about economic returns and social advancements, she should advocate for the private sector to retain a larger portion of the earned money, as it will allocate it to the most advantageous investments.

Inflation Is Regressive Form of Taxation

Inflation is a form of default, in which the government transfers its imbalances to those who receive their salaries in currency. This is the most regressive form of taxation, primarily affecting the poorest. When governments ignore the real demand for the money they issue, confidence in the currency disappears.

Developing countries do not issue debt in foreign currency because they are stupid, but because there is no international demand for their local currency.

Economists such as Sahm assume that the U.S. dollar will have eternal and unlimited demand, and, as such, the US government can export inflation to the rest of the world through the loss of the purchasing power of the currency it issues.

However, global central banks are reducing their holdings of U.S. dollars (U.S. treasuries). International demand is declining, and the limits I mentioned before are already evident.

The U.S. is showing its economic limits, as evidenced by the significant slowdown despite a record deficit and government so-called stimulus. The U.S. is also demonstrating its fiscal limits as the government persists in raising taxes, resulting in significantly lower tax receipts than anticipated and an interest expense bill that has escalated to $3 billion daily.

Declining Purchasing Power of Dollar

Furthermore, the inflationary limit is evident due to a 20% increase in inflation over the past four years, a 30% increase in the cost of basic groceries, and persistent inflation, which is exemplified by the constant decline in the purchasing power of the U.S. dollar.

What Harris is doing as vice president and intends to continue doing if she becomes president is to continuously test the patience of the world and U.S. citizens when it comes to accepting a constantly depreciated purchasing power of the currency.

Saying that nothing will happen if debt continues to rise and deficits continue to drive government policy is, literally, like saying that an alcoholic should drink more vodka because cirrhosis has not killed him yet.

The dollar is the credit of the U.S. economy. If the U.S. government loses its credibility, domestic agents will begin to reduce their use of the dollar, while international agents will decline the currency due to its constant fiscal excess and its tendency to push the limits of global patience.

Thinking that the U.S. dollar will never lose its reserve currency status is simply reckless and ignores history.

Harris is threatening the dollar, and you should be very concerned when someone says that the government has unlimited taxation and printing resources. That means it has unlimited ways of making you poorer.

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A new report by America First Policy Institute concludes that 123,000 autoworkers could lose their jobs due to the Biden-Harris administration’s regulations requiring 70% of new cars sold to be electric by 2032.

Banning all sales of gasoline-powered cars, as California and 15 other states have proposed, would result in almost 200,000 lost automaker jobs—primarily in Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio, the report concludes.

Other estimates show greater job losses. Ford Motor Co. CEO Jim Farley said at a conference in Detroit in 2022 that “it takes 40% less labor to make an electric car.” With over a million workers now employed in auto and parts manufacturing, that’s a loss of 400,000 jobs, twice the estimate of America First Policy Institute.

Layoffs are happening in real time. This summer, after receiving over $500 million in government grants to make batteries and electric vehicles, Stellantis announced jobs losses for 2,500 workers in Michigan who make popular Ram trucks.

Americans are losing jobs because of a product they don’t even want to buy. This year, over 5,000 car dealers wrote to President Joe Biden, saying: “Electric vehicle sales are not remotely on trend to meet those [Environmental Protection Agency] requirements. Indeed, the day supply of electric vehicles on dealer lots today is nearly twice the supply of conventional vehicles. … We now ask that you hit the brakes.”

The 400,000 lost jobs forecast by Ford’s Farley are only in auto manufacturing. The number doesn’t account for job losses among mechanics at dealerships and local garages who now repair gasoline-powered vehicles.

A million American workers are employed in car repair and maintenance; electric vehicles need less maintenance. (The AFPI report specifically excludes them from its job loss calculations.)

But repair jobs are vital for American workers. No oil changes or tuneups are needed for electric vehicles, but when drivers need to replace their $15,000 EV batteries, they buy new ones. If one quarter of the million mechanics lost their jobs due to the Biden-Harris EV mandate, that’s a loss of another 250,000 jobs.

Similarly, a 2020 report from Germany’s National Platform Future of Mobility concluded that 400,000 German autoworkers would lose their jobs due to electrification. China exported 5 million vehicles around the world in 2023. The Chinese auto giant BYD will sell its Seagull EV in Germany in 2025 for $12,500, undercutting German automakers.

As China expands in EVs, Jeep has left China. Sales of GM and Ford vehicles in China are half of what they were in 2017.

And here’s the dirty little secret: The hundreds of thousands of jobs lost to Americans and Europeans are going to Chinese workers.  

China produces 66% of global EVs and 85% of batteries. These sales are driven by subsidies from the Chinese Communist Party, including tax credits, forced labor, unregulated coal-fired power plants, and low-interest loans.

While China has an unfair advantage in EVs, U.S. companies dominate in larger vehicles such as pickup trucks and SUVs. But American companies are being required—through final rules promulgated by the Biden-Harris administration’s Environmental Protection Agency and Transportation Department—to produce electric vehicles rather than the cars their customers want to buy. 

Besides transferring jobs to China, Chinese electric vehicles have the potential to send data back to China as a way to spy on Americans. EVs would be far more effective than spy balloons at collecting important data, and at far lower cost, because Americans would purchase these vehicles. For similar security reasons, the Federal Communications Commission banned Huawei and ZTE technology in 2022.

Chinese EVs also would allow the ruling Chinese Communist Party to assemble an unprecedented trove of Americans’ personal data. When consumers buy cars, they provide information on addresses, driver’s licenses, credit cards, and insurance. When drivers get loans, auto companies can access credit history, including mortgages, other loans, and additional credit cards. America should not give this to the CCP.

Further, just as General Motors’ Onstar program advertises that it can stop or disable stolen vehicles, America should not give the Chinese Communist Party power to stop or disable EVs driven in America. If Onstar can do this, Chinese car companies undoubtedly have the technology—as well as potentially disabling braking and navigation systems.

With the recent Supreme Court decision in Loper Bright v. Raimondo, requiring agencies to follow congressional statutes, the Biden-Harris regulations on electric vehicles will face strong legal challenges. Americans deserve their choice of vehicles, and the Biden-Harris administration should not use regulations to ship American jobs offshore.  

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