The Daily Signal - Mike Johnson Pulls CR, Harris Requests Second Debate, South Carolina Strikes School Choice | Sept. 11

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Starting point is 00:00:34 I'm Elizabeth Mitchell, and this is the Daily Signal Top News for Wednesday, September 11th. The House of Representatives was expected to vote on the bill to fund the federal government on Wednesday, but Speaker Mike Johnson pulled the bill from the House floor hours before. Johnson had attached the SAVE Act, which confirms that illegal immigrants cannot vote in U.S. elections to the continuing resolution to fund the federal government for the next six months. months. Some House Republicans have said they would be willing to shut down the federal government to keep the Save Act in the spending bill. Seeking to avert a shutdown, which would occur if the House can't approve a spending bill by September 30th, as the new fiscal year starts October 1st,

Starting point is 00:01:25 Johnson delayed the vote on the spending bill to convince conservatives unwilling to vote for it. Johnson said that we're in the consensus building business here in Congress with small majorities. The speaker continued that they were having thoughtful conversations, family conversations within their Republican conference, and that he believed they would get there. He said people have concerns about all sorts of things. That's how the process works and sometimes it takes a little more time. On Truth Social, former President Donald Trump called for the Save Act to be in the spending bill. He said, if Republicans in the House and Senate don't get absolute assurances on election security, in all caps, they should in no way, shape, or form go forward with a continuing

Starting point is 00:02:09 resolution on the budget. Trump continued, the Democrats are trying to, quote-unquote, stuff voter registrations with illegal immigrants. Don't let it happen. Close it down. The first debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump was last night. After the debate, Kamala Harris called for another. But Trump does not appear. here as eager to agree to another debate after last night. Trump joined Fox News this morning and called the debate rigged. Trump said he felt like the debate was three-on-one. It was a three-on-one, and that's okay.

Starting point is 00:02:46 I've had worse odds in my life. I've had it before, but never so obvious. A lot of people are very angry about it. You know, you have corrupt news organizations. You have a lot of bad people. It's amazing. In that business. In your business.

Starting point is 00:03:00 Speaking on Fox Friends, Trump said he has. is not inclined to do another debate. So you do, right at the end, as I was interrupting, so you don't know if you wanted to do another debate. It sounds like you're a no. Well, I'd be less inclined to because we had a great night. We won the debate. We had a terrible, a terrible network. I think they were terrible. They should be embarrassed. I mean, they kept correcting me, and what I said was largely right, or I hope it was right. But what they said was absolutely wrong, the other, you know, what she said, and they refused to correct. I even complained a couple of times. Why aren't you correcting them? Look, they should have corrected

Starting point is 00:03:41 six or seven times. She told it outright light. After the debate Tuesday night, Harris campaign chair, Jen O'Malley Dillon said, under the bright lights, the American people got to see the choice they will face the ballot box between moving forward with Kamala Harris or going backwards with Trump. That's what they saw tonight and what they should see at a second debate in October. Stay tuned. The South Carolina Supreme Court struck down a school choice law that allowed parents to use education savings accounts to send their children to private school or to homeschool. The court ruled the education savings trust funds violate the state's constitutional prohibitions against the use of public funds for the direct benefit of private educational institutions. The government signed the education scholarship trust funds law in the state's constitutional funds law in the state's constitutional.

Starting point is 00:04:28 March 2023, which allowed 5,000 eligible students to apply for education scholarships worth $6,000. South Carolina's Republican Governor Henry McMaster said the decision may have devastating consequences for thousands of low-income families who relied on these scholarships for their child's enrollments in school last month. He continued, it may also jeopardize the future enrollment of tens of thousands of students in state-funded four-year-old kindergarten programs and state-funded scholarships utilized by students at private colleges and historically black colleges and universities. The Supreme Court ruling said the path forward for school choice advocates is only to amend the Constitution. Justice Gary Hill wrote the majority opinion in the 3-2 vote.

Starting point is 00:05:12 Hill wrote, If the spending of public funds for the direct benefit of private schools is an idea the people wish to embody in our Constitution, the Constitution provides a ready method to amend its terms. A House subcommittee held a hearing Tuesday titled the Biden-Harris border crisis non-citizen voting that examined non-citizen voting in the nation's border. Here's Representative Jim Jordan's opening statements. On day one, the Biden-Harris administration made three challenges that led to the unprecedented situation we've seen in our country. Day one, they decided no more building the wall, no more remain in Mexico, why we evaluate your asylum claim. and once you get here, you will not be detained, you will be released into the country.

Starting point is 00:05:58 As a result of that, 10 million migrants have come into the country, 99 on the terrorist watch list. We've lost track, they've lost track, of hundreds of thousands of young people who came into the country. Because of all those decisions made again, deliberately, intentionally, in a premeditated way on day one of this administration, all kinds of terrible things have happened. All kinds of terrible things. The hearing comes as House Republicans pushed to include safeguards to ensure that only U.S. citizens vote as part of a continuing resolution to keep funding the government. Tens of thousands of non-citizens are registered to vote and have voted, House members and testifying experts said. Representative Chip Roy said this could have a huge impact on a close presidential election.

Starting point is 00:06:45 Roy said it would only take a few thousand non-citizens voting, much less than the 1.2 million estimated, to impact the outcome of Razor thin elections. Representative Jerry Nadler, a Democrat from New York, insisted that non-citizen voting isn't a widespread problem. Nadler said, Republicans rely on the false premise that there is widespread non-citizen 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. And that's all for today's episode of Top News. Thank you so much for listening to The Daily Signals Podcasts. Please be sure to tune in tomorrow morning for a special episode where I sit down with Representative Mary Miller of Illinois at the State Freedom Caucus Summit in Dallas. We discussed her role in founding

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The Daily Signal - Mike Johnson Pulls CR, Harris Requests Second Debate, South Carolina Strikes School Choice | Sept. 11

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