House GOP Wants To Make It Harder To Vote, Easier To Give Dark Money

House Republicans plan to advance legislation on Thursday that would increase burdens on voting, ease restrictions on money in politics, and completely rewrite election law for the District of Columbia.

The American Confidence in Elections Act aims to nationalize some of the voter suppression policies that Republican-run states passed after President Donald Trump lied about voter fraud in 2020 as part of a scheme to steal the election.

With Democrats in control of the Senate and the White House, the bill has no chance of becoming law. In the previous Congress, Democrats made legislation to expand the right to vote and disclose dark money their top legislative priority. That bill, the Freedom to Vote Act, was blocked by a GOP filibuster after then-Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (Ariz.) and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) refused to support changing the Senate’s filibuster rules.