President Donald Trump made a prime time pitch to lawmakers Thursday night to pass his election security bill as a salvo to his claims U.S. election systems are vulnerable to fraud and interference.

It may have just scrambled Republicans’ government funding plans.

House GOP leaders announced earlier Thursday they want to put a “clean” continuing resolution on the floor next week — a move that inherently means leaving out Trump’s SAVE America Act.

Speaker Mike Johnson’s strategy would fund the government well ahead of the normal Sept. 30 deadline in a Congress that’s already seen two record-breaking funding lapses.

And, according to three people…

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