Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., slammed what she deemed ‘hypocrisy’ shown by Democratic socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., arguing that the two officials are betraying their constituents by refusing to support voter identification measures.

Voter ID Debate

Malliotakis called on the Senate to pass President Donald Trump’s Safeguard America’s Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act, a piece of legislation that would require voters to prove American citizenship before casting a ballot. ‘If you want people to be confident in the outcome of the election, then we need to pass the Save America Act. We need to require voter ID,’ Malliotakis told Fox News Digital.

Malliotakis pinned the blame in particular on Schumer for blocking the SAVE Act. ‘We’ve passed it out of the House now four times and is up to the Senate to get the job done. These Senators keep going to their district saying that they support the SAVE America act, or at least they’re telling their constituents that they support voter ID, and then they go to Washington and they vote against it, and so citizens need to hold those senators accountable,’ she told Fox News Digital.

Malliotakis also laid into Mamdani, highlighting what she called his hypocrisy in requiring identification for city programs. ‘Sadly, you see the hypocrisy when you see programs like Mayor Mamdani wanting to require photo ID to utilize a government-run supermarket or when he wanted you to use a photo ID, not just one, but multiple IDs for a snow shoveling program,’ she told Fox News Digital.

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