'A new level': Trump mocked for pushing law to ban something 'already against the law'

Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson are holding a big press conference at Mar-a-Lago on Friday where they will reportedly propose a bill that was already passed 28 years ago in 1996.

According to USA Today, the men will demand passage of a bill that would prevent immigrants from voting in an election. The problem is that this is already a law on the books.

"All non-U.S. citizens, including unauthorized immigrants, are ineligible to vote in federal elections. The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996... introduced criminal penalties for noncitizens who vote in federal elections," quoted reporter Jennifer Shutt from the Congressional Research Service cited in its report "Unauthorized Immigrants: Frequently Asked Questions," published Aug. 10, 2022.

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USA Today's promotion of the Trump event neglects to mention that there is already a law for this.

Democrats have criticized the Republican-led Congress as the body unproductive. Thus far, the "Do Nothing Congress," as critics have referred to it, has passed 47 bills. The last previously known "Do Nothing Congress," was named after President Harry Truman for passing only 906 bills.

"As with most things the GOP is looking for solutions to a non-existent problems," complained one person.

"Please these peeps don’t vote they trying to survive!" said another.

"It’s pure BS. Unauthorized immigrants cannot vote in federal elections," complained Mike Walker, a former FEMA senior official.

New York Assemblyman Charles D. Lavine was just as annoyed. He complained on X, "Non citizens are not allowed to vote in our elections. Leave it to the ilk of Trump and Johnson to try to scare Americans. BS to their lies."

Another frustrated citizen cursed at the Republicans: "A NEW level of f--ked up. Let's promote a bill to prevent something that is already against the law."

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) complained at the end of last year that the opposing party had done nothing but focus on the impeachment they were plotting against President Joe Biden.

“As Speaker Johnson’s Do-Nothing Republican Congress spent the entirety of 2023 pushing lies and catering to Donald Trump, launching a nonsensical impeachment inquiry into President Biden, expelling its own Members, overthrowing the Speaker, and shirking its duty to fund the government, Committee Democrats poured our time and energy into working for the American people and defending the rule of law," he said in a release.

It wasn't long after that Raskin pointed to House Republicans, on “orders from” Trump, for killing the first agreement between Democrats and Republicans on the border in decades.

“Rather than joining Democrats and Biden in good faith, bipartisan negotiations to make progress on immigration, they are taking orders from Donald Trump and actively obstructing a bipartisan border deal,” Raskin said in January.

Republicans have suffered backlash for the move, with Democrats saying that they can't run on concerns about the border while blocking laws to fix it.

"Because Republicans do not want to fix the border. The secret's out. For Republicans, the border is a moneymaking grievance machine. And if we passed our border bill and fixed the problem, Republicans literally wouldn't know what for do with their days," said Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) in a February floor speech.