1. United States
2. Ohio
3. Letter

I am writing to condemn, in the strongest possible terms, your Exclusive Citizenship Act of 2025 and to demand that you withdraw this dangerous, unnecessary, and hypocritical proposal. Your bill would force millions of Americans to choose between civic belonging and family, heritage, and faith — an impossible and cruel choice. You have publicly introduced this measure on your Senate website and in press materials; the intent is unmistakable: to strip protection from people who hold more than one nationality and to punish people for ties to family and homelands outside the United States. There are no reliable official counts of U.S. dual citizens, but longstanding research and of-the-moment reporting make clear this is not a niche issue. Scholarly estimates have placed the number of dual nationals in the United States anywhere from roughly 500,000 to 5.7 million, and mainstream reporting notes industry estimates and rapid increases in demand for second passports. To introduce legislation that threatens that population without robust evidence of a problem is reckless. Independent reporting also makes clear the potential scale and human cost: industry and reporting estimates have highlighted a sharp rise in Americans seeking second passports and have warned that “millions” could be affected if dual citizenship were outlawed or severely restricted. Your proposal therefore risks upending the lives of service members, families, businesspeople, students, and long-standing U.S. citizens who also maintain lawful ties abroad. It is particularly striking — and frankly hypocritical — that you, an immigrant who became an American citizen after coming here as a child, would sponsor legislation that would strip citizenship from fellow Americans unless they sever ties with their countries of origin. Your own biography says you moved to the United States at age five and became an American citizen at 18. You know, or should know, what it means to hold ties to more than one country — to have family, culture, and memory that cross borders — and yet you asked Congress to take that from others. That contradiction deserves to be called out plainly. Your bill would also have a disproportionate and immediate impact on Israeli Americans and others who maintain dual U.S.–Israel citizenship. The U.S. Census and community estimates put the Israeli-American population in the hundreds of thousands (roughly 190–200k by Census/estimates), and reporting has observed that more than 200,000 people hold both U.S. and Israeli citizenship — meaning your bill would single out a large, loyal, and deeply engaged community. Moreover, Israeli law recognizes dual citizenship, so this is not a hypothetical overlap but a real, lived status for many American families. Targeting dual nationality therefore reads as an attack on communities who are staunch U.S. supporters and who also maintain legitimate and longstanding ties to Israel. Finally, this legislation plays straight into the politics of exclusion. It raises serious constitutional and human-rights questions (including due process and equal protection concerns) and would create needless insecurity for citizens who have done nothing wrong. If your goal is national security, there are narrowly tailored tools already on the books; sweeping denationalization and coerced renunciation are not it. Recent coverage from multiple outlets has flagged both the legal and practical problems with your approach and the broad public alarm it has caused. Withdraw this bill. If you refuse, at minimum, commit to a transparent, evidence-driven hearing process that includes immigrant communities, Jewish and Israeli-American groups, veterans, and civil-rights experts — and provide the data that purportedly justifies such a radical change to the meaning of U.S. citizenship.