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Two Republicans threaten to stall House until Senate passes SAVE America Act
She continued, “The President agrees that the Senate needs to move Voter ID. Other Frontline Members depend on Voter ID legislation getting passed. Stop catering to a Senate that doesn’t do their jobs.”
Johnson can afford to lose only three Republican votes on the House floor, assuming all Democrats are present. Luna and Roy’s opposition will mean Johnson can afford to lose only one more GOP vote if he hopes to pass legislation on the floor under regular order this week.
The House is set to vote Tuesday evening on a Senate-passed bipartisan housing bill, which would increase the housing supply by easing federal regulations, under a suspension of the rule, meaning it must pass with a two-thirds majority.
While the housing legislation is expected to pass with bipartisan support, a number of House Republicans have pledged to vote no on legislation sent by the Senate over the stalling of the SAVE American Act.
“The Senate cannot keep obstructing President Trump’s agenda while ignoring election integrity,” Luna wrote in a post on Monday. “I call on my fellow colleagues to stand firm and honor their pledge.”
Roy, while calling the Senate’s housing legislation a “bad bill,” wrote on X that he will “oppose other bills AND rules until we fight for SAVE, HR2 (border codification), ban in congressional stock trading, & a reconciliation 3 that isn’t a fake pay-for approps bill.”
President Donald Trump has repeatedly demanded that Senate Republicans pass the SAVE America Act, going as far as to threaten to veto an extension of a key government surveillance program that expired last week if it is not attached.
“We got to pass the SAVE America Act,” Trump said Tuesday at a Pennsylvania rally to a raucous applause.
“We can never let elections get rigged again,” he later added.
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Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) has been under increased pressure from Trump and his base to eliminate the 60-vote filibuster to pass the party’s agenda, including the SAVE America Act, but the majority leader has maintained that the votes “aren’t there” even if the Senate moved to do so.