A group of conservatives is vowing to grind the House floor to a halt until Republicans pass the SAVE America Act. "There's going to be no votes this week, and it's going to be as long as it takes," Rep.Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., who is leading the effort, told Fox News Digital in an interview.The hardball tactics led House Republican leadership to pull a series of votes on Wednesday.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is expected to put legislation that had already been teed up for a vote Thursday, but it is unclear whether he will be able to convince Luna and other conservatives to end their blockade, effectively freezing the House floor. "The president's been very clear," Luna told Fox News Digital."He's not playing these games anymore, and I'm going to fully back him, and I have the votes to do it."A group of conservatives led by Rep.
Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., is vowing to grind the House floor to a halt until Republicans pass Trump's SAVE America Act.(Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg via Getty Images; Francis Chung/Politico/Bloomberg via Getty Images)REPS.
FINE, SELF, HARRIS, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH: WE'LL BLOCK THE SENATE UNTIL THE SAVE ACT PASSESPresident Donald Trump has repeatedly insisted the SAVE America Act is his top legislative priority.The sprawling legislation, which would enact voter ID requirements, crack down on mail-in voting and ban sex change procedures for minors, has stalled in the Senate amid widespread opposition from Democrats. House conservatives are pressuring their Senate colleagues to fight for the bill, but a version that incorporates all the president’s priorities has yet to receive a vote in their chamber.Johnson is scheduled to meet with Trump later Thursday in a likely attempt to break the logjam.
Given the speaker's razor-thin majority, just a few dissenting Republicans can have an outsize impact on whether legislation can be advanced through the House. Johnson floated Wednesday incorporating a narrow version of the SAVE America Act ...