The Ben Shapiro Show - June 25, 2026


Why Do Democrats HATE Voter ID?

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On today's show, Alex Blumberg talks about the Save Act, which would require proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections, and why it's a bad idea. Plus, Alex takes a look at the housing bill that passed the House and now faces a potential Senate filibuster.

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00:00:00.000 Somehow Democrats are still giving Trump a hard time on voter ID and the Save Act.
00:00:04.000 They have yet to come up with one good argument against voter ID. 0.88
00:00:06.000 It's getting a little bit ridiculous.
00:00:08.000 We also look at the pros and cons of the housing bill, as is the case with most bills out of Congress these days. 1.00
00:00:12.000 It's a little bit of a crap sandwich. 0.99
00:00:14.000 Congress, man. 1.00
00:00:15.000 Always good time.
00:00:16.000 Now, again, what is in the Save Act that the president is so agitated over?
00:00:21.000 A bunch of stuff that I generally agree with, obviously.
00:00:23.000 It requires individuals to provide documentary proof of U.S. citizenship when you register to vote in a federal election.
00:00:29.000 So states will not be able to accept a voter registration application unless you actually give that kind of proof.
00:00:34.000 That would require a passport or a birth certificate or a naturalization certificate. 0.83
00:00:39.000 A real ID card wouldn't be allowed because, again, real ID cards can be issued to illegal immigrants in places like California. 0.56
00:00:45.000 It adds photo ID requirements for in person voting and photo ID requirements for requesting and submitting absentee ballots. 0.70
00:00:52.000 And eligible voters could only register or re register in person with an election official.
00:00:56.000 So, no voter registration by mail or online voter registration or stuff like that.
00:01:01.000 Now, again, I'm in favor of a lot of these provisions.
00:01:04.000 Do I think that we ought to blow up the filibuster over that?
00:01:07.000 Again, you're going to miss it.
00:01:09.000 When it's gone.
00:01:10.000 Also, you don't have the votes for it.
00:01:12.000 So, Speaker Johnson is coming up with a workaround.
00:01:14.000 His workaround is that we'll shove the Save Act into a reconciliation bill.
00:01:18.000 And reconciliation is this process that avoids the filibuster by allowing a sheer majority in the Senate to just vote for it.
00:01:24.000 The problem, of course, is that any reconciliation bill, you're going to have people in the Senate who try to strip provisions out of the House version, but this is the Speaker's workaround.
00:01:33.000 The only path, I think, to get that done, because you're never going to get seven Democrats to join 53 Republicans in the Senate to do that, they will not do it.
00:01:40.000 Chuck Schaefer will.
00:01:41.000 Will never vote for that or release any Democrat to do it.
00:01:44.000 You have to put it on a reconciliation bill.
00:01:46.000 We believe that if you create a grant program that ties it to reconciling the budget and you allow blue states, if they come to their senses and they want to avail themselves of election integrity proposals and ideas and policies, they can draw down from a federal fund and use those funds.
00:02:04.000 We're willing to invest heavily in that.
00:02:06.000 And House Republicans will put together a reconciliation bill, Reconciliation 3.0, that will have that.
00:02:11.000 I talked the President through that in detail this morning, as I have in the past.
00:02:14.000 And he said, Can we do it?
00:02:15.000 I said, We can if the Republicans will stand together.
00:02:20.000 Okay.
00:02:21.000 So, I mean, if they stand together in the House is really not the question.
00:02:23.000 It really is much more about the Senate.
00:02:25.000 Naturally, Democrats used this quasi breach between Trump and the Senate Republicans as an opportunity to smack him. 0.60
00:02:32.000 Senator Elizabeth Warren, who again was behind part of this housing bill, here she was on MSNow ripping on the president.
00:02:39.000 He is in trouble.
00:02:40.000 And instead of changing his policies, instead of doing what the American people need and want, He's off saying, I'm going to keep a bunch of them from voting.
00:02:51.000 And that's what he's thrown down on.
00:02:54.000 This is Donald Trump trying to subvert democracy because he understands that democracy is not going to be in favor of Donald Trump and the Republicans come November.
00:03:08.000 Okay.
00:03:09.000 So again, I will say, I think that all of the heartburn on all sides of the Save Act is wildly overstated.
00:03:14.000 When Democrats suggest that having to show ID to register to vote is some sort of great subversion of democracy, that's an overstatement.
00:03:20.000 When Republicans suggest, that the reason that they're losing particular elections, especially after they just won the House, the Senate, and the presidency is because millions and millions of illegal immigrants are voting or some such.
00:03:30.000 That is not the problem.
00:03:31.000 The problem is ballot harvesting, which by the way is not stopped by the Save Act.
00:03:33.000 That is a major problem.
00:03:35.000 But the idea that you have like tons of people who are illegally voting, the evidence for that is scanty at best, given the sort of current situation.
00:03:42.000 Again, that doesn't mean it's not a problem or that we shouldn't fight it, but treating this as sort of like the existential crisis in America is just not related to what we currently know about voting procedures in the United States.
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00:05:12.000 So, according to Politico, President Trump abruptly canceled the bill signing for major bipartisan legislation on housing affordability on Wednesday.
00:05:20.000 He said he would not support the law until Congress passes his elections bill.
00:05:23.000 Now, again, he's not vetoing it.
00:05:25.000 And if he just doesn't do anything about it, it naturally becomes law within 10 days.
00:05:28.000 Okay, so that's just how it works.
00:05:31.000 He was scheduled to sign the 21st Century Road to Housing bill on Wednesday afternoon.
00:05:37.000 But he said that essentially he's not going to sign the bill until Congress rams through the Save Act.
00:05:44.000 So, what exactly is in this bill?
00:05:46.000 Again, it's got some good stuff, it's got some bad stuff. 0.99
00:05:48.000 It's bipartisan, which means that it's kind of a crap sandwich.
00:05:51.000 The good stuff is that it reduces federal regulations, it streamlines environmental reviews, it speeds up the construction process, it expands financing, it encourages manufactured homes, and it offers funding to local governments that actually build more housing. 0.51
00:06:05.000 So, it increases the housing supply.
00:06:07.000 On the bad side, you have the dumb populist nonsense about how corporate investors should not be able to buy up single family homes, which, again, we've discussed this on the program before.
00:06:15.000 None of that actually lowers the rent or lowers any of the housing prices when you do that. 0.89
00:06:20.000 It's just that that's not the way the economy works.
00:06:22.000 It is a marginal part of the housing stock, and actually, it disincentivizes production of new homes, which is what you actually need.
00:06:28.000 Okay, so there's kind of one dumb part of the bill, and then some good parts of the bill.
00:06:33.000 President Trump, for his part, he says he doesn't care about the housing bill. 0.91
00:06:36.000 Now, this seems like a political own goal.
00:06:39.000 Why not sign it, make a big deal out of it, and say that you're working on affordability?
00:06:43.000 If you really believe affordability is a major electoral issue, you sign it, you make a big deal out of it, and you wave it around.
00:06:48.000 Instead, the president seems to think that he's got leverage with Republicans to, what, destroy the filibuster based on the Save Act if he doesn't have a signing ceremony or something?
00:06:57.000 So the president put out a statement yesterday.
00:06:59.000 The Elizabeth Pocahontas Warren-centric housing bill, which is of minor importance compared to the lower interest rates and even FISA, pales in comparison to passing the Save America Act.
00:07:08.000 That is what Americans, both Democrats, Republicans, and everyone else care about.
00:07:11.000 Get the bad Republicans to approve it, or better yet, terminate the filibuster and approve it and everything else Republicans have ever dreamed of.
00:07:17.000 The Democrats will do it in one hour, 100%. 0.97
00:07:19.000 Republicans will feel very stupid if they don't do it first. 0.99
00:07:21.000 I'll be watching with tears in my eyes. 0.98
00:07:24.000 And so he wants them to destroy the filibuster, which of course, you're going to miss it when it's gone.
00:07:29.000 If there's one thing that we have learned about Senate filibuster rules, once the glass is broken, it cannot be unbroken.
00:07:37.000 The president says that he doesn't really care that much about the housing bill.
00:07:40.000 Again, I'm not sure what the purpose of this would be.
00:07:43.000 You finally get some piece of legislation passed that you can wave around and you're like ripping on your own legislation.
00:07:48.000 This just is not logical.
00:07:50.000 It is a political mistake.
00:07:54.000 If the housing bill that you didn't sign today, if it came to you today.
00:07:56.000 I said I'm not signing the housing bill.
00:07:58.000 I want to see what happens with safety.
00:07:59.000 Look, the housing bill is housing.
00:08:03.000 I made billions of dollars with housing.
00:08:05.000 I know housing better than anybody, maybe anywhere.
00:08:08.000 It's all about the interest rate.
00:08:11.000 Lower the interest rates.
00:08:12.000 You can have all the housing you want.
00:08:14.000 But you have to understand, I don't want to hurt people that own houses, too.
00:08:19.000 These people, for the first time in their lives, they have valuable houses.
00:08:23.000 They become rich.
00:08:24.000 I don't want to hurt them either.
00:08:26.000 What you want to do is, what, good for everyone?
00:08:28.000 Get the interest rates down.
00:08:32.000 Okay, so again, he keeps talking about getting the interest rates down.
00:08:34.000 The problem is we now have inflation, and so the interest rates are probably likely to go up.
00:08:38.000 Well, a lot of this broke out into the open as you're behind closed doors in the Senate.
00:08:42.000 So, one of the problems with the president's approach to the Senate is he's alienated a lot of senators at this point.
00:08:47.000 He's attacked a bunch of senators, ranging from Bill Cassidy to Tom Tillis.
00:08:50.000 There are a bunch of senators who aren't on board in general with a lot of what President Trump is trying to do.
00:08:56.000 So, a bunch of fighting occurred behind closed doors between Republicans and the president.
00:09:00.000 The president was on the right side of some of these fights and on the wrong side of others.
00:09:03.000 I'll say that he's on the right side.
00:09:04.000 When he is angry at Republicans who voted along with Democrats to suggest that he has to quote unquote end action in Iran.
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