Key panel advances Johnson's plan to merge SAVE America Act with NDAA

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Hill

06/29/26 10:43 PM ET


The House Rules Committee on Monday advanced the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), a must-pass defense bill, sending it to the floor for consideration. The committee reported out a rule along party lines by a vote of 8-4 that would merge the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act to the NDAA in a special process known as MIRVing.

Several conservative hardliners previously said they would oppose a procedural rule that would tee up a debate and final vote on legislation until action is taken on the SAVE America Act – and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) announced the plan as a way to appease the holdouts.

But the real test will be whether conservatives will support the procedural rule Tuesday. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.), a vocal advocate of the SAVE America Act, wrote on the social platform X Monday that the Senate could strip out the voting rights measure from the NDAA. She also wrote after the Rules Committee hearing that, “MIRV ref NDAA won’t work.” Johnson would need near-unanimous GOP support on the procedural rule, given his razor-thin margin in the House.

Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), the ranking member of the House Rules Committee, offered an amendment during the hearing to strike out language in the rule merging the SAVE America Act to the NDAA. However, Republicans voted down his amendment.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5946718-save-america-act-ndaa-merger/

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If that bullshit makes it out of the House, the Senate better strip SAVE out.

[gab13by13]

1. I've been voting for over 50 years

and these fuckers, these traitors, want me to bring my birth certificate to the polls.

Fucking Mitt Romney and Mark Meadows were allowed to vote in states that they weren't residents.

[Ray Bruns]

4. "Fucking Mitt Romney and Mark Meadows were allowed to vote in states that they weren't residents"

Yea but they met the Republican voter requirements.

[SamuelAdams]

2. If the GOP wants to block the NDAA, while in a war their cult leader started, over the SAVE Act let them.

[dave99]

7. that WILL stop the war

[Wednesdays]

11. Until Netanyahu or the Iranians decide otherwise. nt

[dave99]

12. Doesn't matter. All ships will be gone and all bases will closed. Who cares.

Let them kill themselves as has benn going on since the 600s

[SergeStorms]

3. Up your Johnson....

Johnson. Count that as another DOA bill from this Trumpublican do nothing Congress. 🖕

[Texin]

5. It's hard not to believe at this point that we're all not well and truly fucked. I'm not surprised that the Court

would wipe out precedents that put some guardrails on executive power, but to hand it all over to the the most corrupt and criminal president this country has ever had is something I don't think we will ever be able to recover from.

[dave99]

6. why can't Republicans just disappear ?

[Martin Eden]

8. Can Senate Democrats filibuster this bill?

I'll support a delay in funding the war machine -- even a LONG delay -- rather than accept extreme voter suppression designed to steal our elections.

[BumRushDaShow]

10. Yes

If all 53 GOPers vote for it, they still need 7 or more Democrats/Indies to go along to invoke cloture (end an implled filibuster).

[KS Toronado]

9. We need a new rule...if a Bill's title states "Clean seawater for Kansas"

Then that Bill should only have items related to getting clean seawater to Kansas. This crap of adding
unrelated amendments to Bills is getting out of control, especially with "pork projects".
Plus Congress Critters use it as a way to lie to us about their voting records. We need a new rule about Bills.