House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) suggested Republicans might condition wildfire aid funds on voter ID requirements in California, calling the idea "commonsense."
At a press conference on Monday, CNN's Manu Raju asked about the possibility of conditions in exchange for wildfire relief funding. President Donald Trump has long accused California of massive voter fraud because the state does not have a strict voter ID law. However, there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud in any state.
"The President said on Friday that he would insist on voter ID as a condition for aid to California," Raju noted. "Would you insist on voter ID in exchange for aid to California?"
"Yeah, we've got to work out the details of that," Johnson replied. "I have not spoken to the President about that issue since he said that. He'll be here tonight, of course, for dinner with us, and that's one of the topics of discussion."
"We were deeply concerned about it in this last election cycle, and [House Republicans] saw three of our seats, frankly, slip away from us in the weeks that it took to continue counting ballots in California when seemingly every other state and nation in America can get it done," he continued. "So we've talked about conditioning the aid that will go there to policy changes."
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Johnson argued that requiring a voter ID to cast a ballot was "a commonsense notion that is supported by the vast majority of the American people who do not want to subsidize crazy California leftist policies that are dangerous for people."
The speaker did not clarify how voter ID requirements related to wildfire relief funds.
Watch the video below from C-SPAN.
