Johnson: Blocking House agenda over SAVE America Act is 'self-defeating'
Source: The Hill
06/29/26 3:56 PM ET
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) warned his Republican colleagues on Monday that it would be a “self-defeating” strategy to hold up legislative action in the House over their demands surrounding the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act and other measures.
“To my colleagues, whomever is thinking that stopping the work of House Republicans to make Americans safer right now and to bring down the cost of living — impeding that progress just because stubborn Senate Democrats won’t do the job of the American people is self-defeating. It doesn’t make any sense,” Johnson told reporters.
His comments come the week after Republican hard-liners in the House blocked unrelated legislation from coming to the House floor as they called on the Senate to pass the SAVE America Act, which would require proof of citizenship for voter registration and voter ID to cast a ballot.
This week, Republican fury about the voting bill threatens to hold up action on the annual defense authorization bill. Arriving in the Capitol on Monday afternoon, Johnson said he had been at the White House for “the last couple of hours talking about the strategy of moving forward very important legislation.”
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