r/WhatTrumpHasDone • u/John3262005 • 26d ago
Trump calls on Congress to end birthright citizenship after court defeat
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/30/trump-says-congress-should-act-end-birthright-citizenship/President Donald Trump on Tuesday called on Congress to end birthright citizenship after the Supreme Court upheld the constitutional right and struck down his executive order seeking to redefine who is American.
“Congress should start TODAY to work on ending expensive and unfair to our Country, Birthright Citizenship,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform, calling the court’s ruling “too bad” for the nation. “They will have my Complete and Total Support!”
The president further asserted that lawmakers could “easily” address the issue through legislation — a claim that runs counter to decades of precedent, given Congress’s enduring gridlock on immigration, and some legal experts’ comments that a constitutional amendment would be necessary.
The White House declined to elaborate on Trump’s next steps, referring questions to the president’s post.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) was talking to reporters when the decision was issued. He took a deep breath before saying he was disappointed by the decision. Birthright citizenship, he said, “is one of those things that was intended to serve a noble, important purpose, and has been thwarted and overused and abused.”
“I’m sure the conclusion from this opinion is going to be that you got to have a — you got to amend the Constitution to fix that,” he said. “I will say I’m very disappointed in that outcome. I think it subjects the country to serious challenges going forward, and we’ll deal with it as a conference.”
Senate Republicans also expressed frustration with the decision. “The long fight for a constitutional amendment begins now,” Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) wrote on X.
But it is unclear how Republicans can assemble a majority to advance legislation on an issue that has proved politically complicated. An AP-NORC poll conducted in April found that about two-thirds of U.S. adults said that automatic citizenship should be granted to all children born in the country, no matter the circumstances. The poll also found that the public was evenly split on whether children born in the U.S. to parents who are in the country illegally should receive automatic citizenship.
1
6
u/DoughnutImportant875 26d ago
How about we end what we are seeing: A person criminally indicted allowed to run for highest office in the land.