House GOP agenda stalls over holdouts' insistence on SAVE America Act

A faction of House Republicans is deliberately stalling legislative progress, insisting that the Senate pass President Trump's SAVE America Act. This conservative group has been a consistent obstacle on the House floor, demanding their priorities be addressed before other bills move forward.

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We'll work on that over the next day and a half, and we'll get everybody to a yes.

On Tuesday, these holdouts thwarted Speaker Mike Johnson's strategy to combine the SAVE America Act with the annual defense policy bill, known as the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). They voted against a procedural vote crucial for setting up final votes on the defense bill and other legislation. Fourteen Republicans, including House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, initially voted no. Scalise later switched his vote to allow leadership to bring the measure up again.

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What my amendment would do is it would put it into the text of the bill, then they would have to file the amendment specifically to strip voter ID plus proof of citizenship.

Representative Anna Paulina Luna, a leading voice among the holdouts, proposed an amendment to insert the voting regulations directly into the NDAA's text. She argued this would make it more difficult for the Senate to remove the election provisions. However, she acknowledged that the provisions could still be stripped out during conference negotiations. Another holdout, Representative Tom Burchett, stated that the issue remains with the House until all avenues are exhausted, emphasizing that the SAVE America Act lacks sufficient support in the Senate.

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Until we've exhausted every avenue, it's still our issue.