Still reeling from his humiliating defeat at the hands of Vice President Kamala Harris at their debate Tuesday night, reality TV host turned failed presidential candidate turned convicted felon Donald Trump, age 78, has instructed his loyal Republican minions in Congress to fall back to a strategy that they have used several times in recent years.
Force a government shutdown, waste billions of taxpayer dollars, risk downgrading America's credit rating and potentially cause an economic downturn, and hope their propagandists on Fox and Twitter can successfully pin the blame on Democrats.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/non-citizen-voting-not-real-issue-trump-gop-1235101728/

Congress is heading toward a potential government shutdown, less than two months before the election, over a made-up issue.

Donald Trump and the GOP falsely assert that non-citizens voting could influence the 2024 election when study after study shows that this is not a real thing. In exchange for a spending bill that would keep the government open, some Republicans are demanding legislation to combat this nonexistent problem, and that would only serve to disenfranchise Americans.

Trump, who continues to falsely assert that he won the 2020 election, has publicly urged the GOP to move ahead with a shutdown if Democrats don’t comply with their demands. “If Republicans in the House, and Senate, don’t get absolute assurances on Election Security, THEY SHOULD, IN NO WAY, SHAPE, OR FORM, GO FORWARD WITH A CONTINUING RESOLUTION ON THE BUDGET,” Trump posted on Truth Social on Tuesday.