Texas Democrat pushes bill to block taxpayer money from Trump's voter fraud commission
Source: Washington Examiner
by Josh Siegel | Jun 30, 2017, 9:01 PM
A Democratic congressman has introduced a bill to deny taxpayer funding to President Trump's voter fraud commission.
The Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, created by Trump in May, received little attention until this week, when at least 20 states rejected a request to provide the commission with all publicly available voter roll data.
"As the president continues to press his blatantly false claim that voter fraud cost him the popular vote in the 2016 presidential election, he endangers the sanctity of our nation's democracy," Rep. Marc Veasey, D-Texas, said in a statement Friday. He is the author of the legislation and co-chair of the Congressional Voting Rights Caucus. "The commission's mission to study non-existent voter fraud cases has nothing to do with ballot security and everything to do with voter suppression and discrimination," Veasey added.
According to Congress.gov, Veasey actually introduced the bill in the House June 22.
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