EXCLUSIVE: Two Republican senators are taking aim at the Biden administration over its support for the Washington, D.C., Council bill giving illegal immigrants and non-citizens, which they say would include members of the Chinese Communist Party residing in the city, the right to vote in local elections.
Sens. Katie Britt, R-Ala., and Tom Cotton, R-Ark., are urging the Senate to take up a joint resolution that would stop the bill in its tracks, following the House of Representatives' passage Friday of a bipartisan resolution of disapproval on the D.C. measure.
Prior to the House's passing of H.J. 24, the resolution disapproving of the D.C. Council's move, the Biden administration issued a memo stating its support for the council's bill and its opposition to the resolution, calling it a denial of "true self-governance," and evidence that D.C. "deserves statehood."
The Biden administration should be ashamed," Britt told Fox News Digital. "This is a flagrant failure of the president to uphold his oath of office to ‘preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.' Quite simply, he has chosen to pander to the far-left wing of the Democratic Party instead of advancing America’s interests."
"Voting in our country is a sacred right that must solely be limited to American citizens. This is simple common sense," she said.
The House passed H.J. 24 in a 260-162 vote. Despite Democratic leadership urging its members to oppose the resolution, 42 of the party's members joined Republicans.
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