WATCH: Biden admin calls election integrity laws 'the worst challenge to our democracy since the Civil War'

White House press secretary Jen Psaki claimed Monday that GOP state election integrity laws are "authoritarian and un-American," calling the Republican-led legislation "the worst challenge to our democracy since the Civil War."

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White House press secretary Jen Psaki claimed Monday that GOP state election integrity laws are "authoritarian and un-American," calling the Republican-led legislation "the worst challenge to our democracy since the Civil War."

Psaki was asked at the Monday press briefing if President Joe Biden will be pushing more for congressional action or state-level pushback and what the White House's strategy is to tackle the issue of the election reform debate.

Biden will "decry efforts to strip the right to vote as authoritarian and anti-American," Psaki said of the president's upcoming speech in Philadelphia.

Ahead of Tuesday's remarks, Psaki said that Biden "will lay out the moral case for why denying the right to vote is a form of suppression and a form of silencing" as well as outline the administration's plans to combat the Republican Party's efforts.

"He will redouble his commitment to using every tool at his disposal to continue to fight to protect the fundamental right of Americans..." Psaki added.

Biden's speech in the City of Brotherly Love will address the ongoing "onslaught of voter suppression laws based on a dangerous and discredited conspiracy theory that culminated in an assault on our capitol," Psaki elucidated.

Since the cataclysmic 2020 presidential election, Republican governors of Arizona, Florida, and Iowa have signed new voting bills over the past year while state legislatures in Pennsylvania and Texas are trying to advance similar measures that the Biden administration as well as House Democrats say target minority voters.

Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott vetoed funding for the state legislature mid-June fulfilling the promise he made the previous month after state Democrats staged a walk-out in an attempt to block election reform legislation.

In late May, the Democrat lawmakers walked out of a legislative session in the Texas House to prevent a vote from moving forward on voting laws that would overturn many of the coronavirus-era voting measures.

The new restrictions opposed by Democrats, who prevented the bill from passing by the midnight deadline, include the reversal of pandemic measures that allowed for 24-hour polling places and drive-thru voting options.

More than 50 Democratic members of the Texas House, the House Democratic Caucus and the Mexican American Legislative Caucus, four state employees, and the Texas AFL-CIO have since filed a petition for a writ of mandamus, asking the state's Supreme Court to override Abbott's state budget veto.

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