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The SAVE America Act, which seeks to require proof of citizenship and photo identification for voting, has essentially halted most activity on the Hill. Luna led a blockade preventing most House business from continuing over a lack of Senate action on the bill, even as Senate Republicans insist the legislation does not have enough support to pass.

And Trump himself has shown that few initiatives have greater urgency than passing the act, going so far as to cancel the signing of a bipartisan housing bill, explaining that he wanted the elections bill passed first.

Luna helped spike the House agenda over her concerns that Johnson ’s proposed formula for connecting the SAVE America Act with the annual defense spending bill would allow the Senate to dilute it.

Johnson on Sunday, however, said that “what she was saying just simply isn’t accurate.”

Even as Senate Republicans have soured on the chances of a third reconciliation bill , Johnson said that he would put the SAVE America Act in the bill. However, he added, “There is zero chance … that seven Democrats are going to help us on election integrity.”

“What we’re planning to do is send over a bill that will be irresistible for any Republican,” Johnson said.

He added: “Every Republican would vote for that if packaged correctly, and that’s what we’re planning to do right now.”

Johnson also maintained that Trump would accept the House version of the SAVE America Act — which doesn’t include the Senate’s prohibition of most mail-in voting, among other measures — saying that the president understands those measures are “a bigger reach.”

“If we can get proof of citizenship and photo ID to vote, that eliminates so much of the problem, all the fraud and everything that everybody’s concerned about in our elections, particularly, frankly, in these blue states,” Johnson continued.