With the House of Representatives, the Senate, and the White House all under Republican control, election integrity will be a top priority as House Administration Committee Chairman Bryan Steil is working to push legislation with such aims through.

Steil, a Wisconsin Republican, told the “John Solomon Reports” podcast on Tuesday's episode that a Democratic-controlled Senate blocked the passage of election integrity legislation that the House had passed last year. However, with Republicans leading both the Senate and the White House starting on Monday, bills regarding citizenship-only voting and no foreign funding in elections can be enacted more easily.

Key pieces of election integrity legislation

“We should put election integrity front and center in Congress and for the American people. Electing President Trump is so essential in our push to make sure that we get legislation across the line,” Steil said on the podcast.

“Frustratingly, last Congress, we put forward a number of very strong bills to enhance election integrity at the federal level,” but “the Senate, when under Democratic control, sat on those bills and moved none of them forward,” he added.

“Now, working with the Republican Senate, with a champion of President Trump in the White House, we have a big opportunity to go back to this legislation and actually get it signed into law.”

Steil explained that there are a couple of key pieces of election integrity legislation that he is focusing on.

“So, front and center are two major pieces of legislation: the SAVE Act, which says U.S. elections are for U.S. citizens only; and then what has been called the ACE Act, American Confidence in Elections Act, which is a broad, comprehensive, conservative election integrity bill that is far-reaching,” he said.

“Inside of the ACE Act, are really important provisions, things like preventing foreign money from coming into U.S. elections.” The ACE Act is made up of almost 50 bills, including aiding states in ensuring election integrity in their elections, promoting voter ID, and preventing private funding of election administration.

Steil also referenced the 388 non-citizens who voted in the November general election, according to public records forced to be released by the District of Columbia Board of Elections to Judicial Watch.

While non-citizens are prohibited from voting in federal, state, and most local elections, the states of California, Maryland, and Vermont, and Washington, D.C., allow non-citizens to vote in local elections. Steil called the practice “absolutely ridiculous.”

“We have legislation that would actually ban that, that would end non-citizens from voting in our nation's capital. We'll pass that out of the House, as we've done before, but this time, if that legislation is taken up in the Senate, as I think it will be under a Senator Thune-led Senate, I envision many of the Democrats feeling pressure to actually vote in favor of election integrity,” Steil said.

"No room for foreign funds in U.S. elections"

“We know Democrats don't like voting for election integrity, but let me tell you, when the pressure gets high enough, I think at the end of the day, their constituents are going to demand that they vote to ban non-citizens from voting in our nation's capital.”

Steil also addressed the issue of foreign funding in U.S. elections.

“[T]here is no room, no room for foreign funds in U.S. elections,” he said. “U.S. elections should be for U.S. citizens only – that includes voting, and that includes money coming into political campaigns.

“As it relates to the funding side of this, I think we have a couple things at play, making sure that we close off foreign funds from coming in through 501(c) organizations that are then flushed around into Super PACs,” Steil explained. “The other is whether or not online fundraising platforms, such as ActBlue, have the proper security protocols in place that are needed.”

During a House Administration Committee hearing last month, Caitlin Sutherland, executive director of Americans for Public Trust, warned of the various election activities in which foreign nationals can participate.

"It is currently legal for foreign nationals to pay for 'get-out-the-vote' operations, voter registration, issue advocacy, voter education, ballot harvesting, door knocking – like how the UK’s Labour Party actively recruited British nationals to knock on doors to support Kamala Harris – and state and local ballot issue campaigns. Congress should act to close all these foreign influence loopholes," Sutherland said.

In that same hearing, Steil mentioned issues with foreign nationals donating to campaigns through ActBlue.

"We have shown there are vulnerabilities in our campaign finance system that would allow a foreign actor to use of a U.S. citizen as a straw donor in order to contribute. This method would be very challenging to detect but may involve the use of gift cards in the name of an unwitting straw donor to avoid detection when facilitating these transactions. Bad actors may also illegally exploit multiple unwitting identities to break large donations into smaller amounts, allowing them to circumvent individual contribution limits," he said at the time.

Steil noted the congressional investigation into ActBlue on the podcast last Thursday.

“[W]hen we began this investigation into ActBlue, we started to realize that they lacked even basic security protocols. And I think what we're going to have to do at the end of the day is put forward standards that all online fundraising platforms must follow. We have legislation as it relates to the CVV number, that relates to an automatic rejection of prepaid debit and credit cards, because these these areas are ripe for abuse,” Steil said.

For it's part ActBlue has repeatedly denied wrongdoing, even in the face of an intense review by Virginia's Attorney General, Jason Miyares, according to the The Loudoun Times.