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 to three people granted anonymity to describe internal deliberations.
It’s not clear whether the move would appease Luna and other hard-liners who want the stalled elections bill attached to every piece of legislation coming across the House floor in an effort to ramp up pressure on the Senate, which has not acted on the SAVE America Act.
House GOP leaders are also trying to entice Luna to allow the rule to clear this week by calling up a bill that make would daylight saving time permanent — a key priority for Luna and other Florida lawmakers. They are also seeking to appease a separate group of conservative holdouts who are threatening to block action on other bills unless they secure a vote on immigration legislation that has been bogged down in internal GOP fights.
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