State Department funding could get caught in House GOP's elections-bill pickle

House GOP leaders continue to struggle with conservative hard-liners’ demands for action on the SAVE America Act and are exploring whether to seek to attach the partisan elections bill to spending legislation scheduled for floor consideration this week.

Speaker Mike Johnson used a similar maneuver last month to attach the SAVE America Act to the annual defense policy bill, but Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) rejected the gambit — leading Johnson to send the House home for its July 4 recess early.

Now he and fellow leaders are considering doing the same for the fiscal 2027 funding bill for the State Department and overseas programs, according…

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