Johnson says House will pass stalled SAVE America Act 'one more time' after latest Trump demands

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Caving to MAGA hardliners, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said the U.S. House will pass the SAVE America Act, President Donald Trump’s massive voter suppression bill, “one more time” through a budget reconciliation process.

“The big urgency is to get SAVE America passed,” Johnson told Fox News Sunday. “The president has that as a top priority, and so do I.”

His announcement came a day after Trump used his Independence Day speech to again call for the bill’s passage, presenting it as a means to end nonexistent election fraud. But the bill has repeatedly stalled in the U.S. Senate — and still appears to lack the votes to pass.

Johnson’s approach would attempt to overcome that problem by including the SAVE America Act in a budget reconciliation bill. That “will be the way to get it through the Senate and finally to the president’s desk,” he said.
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But despite the speaker’s confidence, the reconciliation push would almost certainly fail in the Senate because the chamber has strict rules about what can be included in budget bills.

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