Posted on 05/23/2026 4:14:02 AM PDT by Red Badger
Rep. Nancy Mace just found the nerve she was looking for.
The South Carolina Republican introduced a joint resolution on May 20 that would amend the Constitution to require all members of Congress, federal judges, ambassadors, public ministers, and Senate-confirmed officers to be natural-born U.S. citizens.
Right now, only the president and vice president face that requirement.
Mace wants to change that, and the reaction from foreign-born Democrats in Congress has been exactly what you would expect.
The measure, filed as H.J.Res.188, currently has no cosponsors.
Mace laid out the proposal herself here:
Ilhan Omar. Shri Thanedar. Pramila Jayapal. All born in foreign countries, none were citizens by birth. All sitting in the United States Congress. All making clear every single day their loyalty is not to America.
We just introduced a long overdue joint resolution proposing a… pic.twitter.com/jTTKyr5Sgb— Rep. Nancy Mace (@RepNancyMace) May 20, 2026
According to Rep. Mace’s official press release, the resolution would extend the natural-born citizen standard across the top tiers of federal service.
Mace introduced a joint resolution proposing a constitutional amendment for representatives, senators, federal judges at every level, ambassadors, public ministers, and Senate-confirmed officers.
Her office argues that the president and vice president already face the natural-born citizen requirement, and that the same standard should apply to officials who write federal law, confirm judges, sit on the federal bench, or represent the United States abroad.
Mace said the issue is not complicated: people holding power in the American government should be natural-born American citizens with one loyalty, America. The release singles out Ilhan Omar as a prime example of why Mace believes the amendment is necessary, accusing her of repeatedly showing that her loyalty is not with the American people.
The release also spells out the effective dates after ratification for representatives, senators, judges, ambassadors, and Senate-confirmed officers, separating the transition rules by office rather than pretending every seat would change on the same day.
It is a straightforward idea rooted in the same logic the Founders applied to the presidency: the people holding the most powerful positions in the American government should owe their full allegiance to this country from birth.
But several foreign-born Democrat members of Congress treated the proposal like a personal attack.
Breitbart reported that Reps. Pramila Jayapal, Raja Krishnamoorthi, and Shri Thanedar all attacked or mocked the resolution on social media.
Jayapal called the proposal narrow-minded and xenophobic, saying her naturalization ceremony was one of the most meaningful days of her life and urging colleagues to condemn the measure.
Krishnamoorthi posted a video calling the resolution immoral and un-American, while Thanedar tried to turn the matter into a personal attack on Mace.
Ilhan Omar had not commented at the time of publication, even though Mace specifically named Omar in her own release as an example of why she believes the amendment is needed.
The article also gave readers the broader scale of the issue: 26 members of the House were not born in the United States, including 19 Democrats and seven Republicans.
Six senators were also born outside the country, including four Democrats and two Republicans. That context matters because the backlash is coming from members who would be directly affected by this debate if voters and states ever moved the amendment forward.
Thanedar’s response showed exactly how quickly Democrats moved away from the constitutional question and into personal attacks.
Not a single one of them engaged with the actual substance of the proposal.
Instead, they made it about themselves, treating the concept of a natural-born citizen requirement as some kind of bigotry rather than a legitimate constitutional standard that already applies to the highest office in the land.
As Just the News explained through The Center Square, the current Constitution already draws this exact line for the presidency and vice presidency.
The proposal is identified as H.J.Res.188 and had no cosponsors at the time of publication.
Article II requires the president and vice president to be natural-born citizens, while Article I sets different rules for Congress: House members must have been U.S. citizens for at least seven years, and senators for at least nine years.
Mace’s amendment would apply prospectively, meaning current officeholders would not immediately lose their seats if the amendment were ratified.
The constitutional threshold is steep: two-thirds approval in both chambers of Congress and ratification by three-fourths of the states.
The same context also makes clear why this is a constitutional amendment fight rather than a normal bill that can be passed by a simple congressional majority. The central point is a proposed change to eligibility for federal power, not a routine House rule.
So the principle is not new. Mace is simply proposing it be applied more broadly.
A constitutional amendment is a high bar. Nobody is pretending this will sail through overnight.
But the backlash itself became part of the story.
The fact that a handful of foreign-born Democrats immediately made it about their own feelings tells you everything you need to know about their priorities.
They are not asking whether the policy makes sense for the country. They are asking whether it inconveniences them personally.
That instinct is precisely why a lot of Americans think the conversation is worth having in the first place.
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Make America Great Again!
We have a problem in that our government does not act as though its first and primary concern is the welfare of America and Americans. Obama tried to facilitate the replacement of the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency with a basket of other currencies. He said that the America’s reserve status “wasn’t fair” to the rest of the world. Had he succeeded the result would have been inflation that makes what we’re seeing now look quaint. I won’t consider whether he was an American or not. But I’m fairly certain that in fifty years the world will know the truth. My point is, the primary concern of the government should the health and welfare of Americans.
A good amendment. There are others that could be passed to make congress great again.
There are probably 10,000 foreigners working in our Civil Service.
There is no way an amendment like this could be passed - 2/3 of the House, 2/3 of the Senate, 3/4 of the states? Absolutely not going to happen.
“We have a problem in that our government does not act as though its first and primary concern is the welfare of America and Americans. “
The ONLY thing ANY Government ever ‘protects’ is ITSELF...........
At the time the Constitution was penned, this was impracticable yet.
Now this birthright is not only feasible but mandatory.
While some newcomers accept true allegiance, most retain the mores and modes of their birth.
This is particularly true of those of very different cultures (i.e. Muslims).
If they are coming here just for the money, they become a tumor on the body politic.
Term limits for both Congress and bureaucrats.
Do a draft again but for federal government employee, just so it’s not all democrats. If you defer to go to college you have to serve longer.
No separate retirement or health insurance for government employees.
“The ONLY thing ANY Government ever ‘protects’ is ITSELF...........”
While that’s true with few exceptions I’d find it difficult to name, the objective is to have a politician who sees his individual interests as the same as the public’s interests. For example, the politician needs to protect himself against the arbitrary seizure of his assets. So, he sets up a legal system to use the state to protect himself from arbitrary asset seizure while at the same time the system protects the powerless. Where this broke down was during the 2008 property bubble governments at various levels were using eminent domain to seize property from individual landowners to provide it to developers who would build more developed areas to increase the taxes paid. Government did a huge amount of damage and long after the bubble popped the courts generally found in favor or the original owners, but too late to save their homes. However, the precedent should prevent such governmental excesses in the future even in blue states.
She’s grandstanding.
What a great idea….!!!
She HAD to know the usual suspects heads would immediately explode… 🤣
Unfortunately.
Ilhan Omar. Shri Thanedar. Pramila Jayapal. Raja Krishnamoorthi. They could appear in a bar scene for an upcoming Star Wars sequel, but in my opinion should not be in the U.S. Congress.
It’s long past time for the country to define what ‘natural born citizenship’ means. This issue has been thoroughly researched but ignored since Obozo was born overseas and pretended to be qualified for the presidency, committing the biggest fraud of all time on the country. This is when the country denied the slick lying fraudster’s crime and went off the cliff. Perhaps with the Somali fraud the country will finally have had enough of it and realize why the framers saw foreign influence in American politics as suicidal. It’s past time to disclose the foreign fraudsters for who they really are.
I’m with you on this one.
Nancy Mace is a mental case.
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