One problem with the Trump Administration’s stridently anti-immigration agenda is that a surprising number of people involved with the MAGA movement are, themselves, immigrants. And that includes the First Lady.
That came up this week, when a Republican senator, Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH), announced that he planned to introduce legislation to eliminate dual citizenship and require those with such citizenship to renounce their previous country and declare “exclusive allegiance” to the United States.
The bill is called the Exclusive Citizenship Act of 2025.
“It was an honor to pledge an Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America and only to the United States of America. Being an American citizen is an honor and a privilege — and if you want to be an American — it’s all or nothing,” he said. “It’s time to end dual citizenship for good,” Moreno, who was born in Colombia but gave up his Colombian citizenship, said in a Fox News story this week.
‘ALL OR NOTHING’: Sen. Bernie Moreno is introducing legislation to end dual citizenship in the U.S., requiring Americans with foreign citizenship to choose one nationality or automatically lose their U.S. citizenship.
Moreno, who immigrated from Colombia, says American… pic.twitter.com/oXUODoKDt7
— Fox News (@FoxNews) December 1, 2025
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Banning dual citizenship is such a low-brow policy just based on pettiness which doesn’t materially gain anything for America https://t.co/1hvcktqQeB
— Roll with Reagan ✝️🍷 (@PunishedRWR) December 2, 2025
But as pointed out by The Daily Beast, both First Lady Melania Trump and her son Barron are dual citizens of the United States and Slovenia. Melania became a U.S. citizen in 2006, while Barron was born in the United States. Under Moreno’s bill, the two of them would presumably have to renounce their Slovenian citizenship.
Per Fox, Moreno’s bill would give dual citizens a year to decide which country they will proclaim as their country.
In addition, several elected members of Congress, including on the Republican side, currently hold dual citizenship.
Here’s a list of all the current republican politicians who have dual citizenship INCLUDING Bernie Moreno 💀 these people are braindead https://t.co/g5vaJX0Lu1 pic.twitter.com/eIIDCJKZlh
— 𝓔𝓶 ♡ (@emkenobi) December 2, 2025
It is not clear whether the legislation has any momentum for passage or if the Trump Administration will end up backing it.
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