{"id":1601,"date":"2026-07-22T15:21:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T15:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thejoeroganpod.com\/?p=1601"},"modified":"2026-07-22T15:21:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T15:21:19","slug":"house-will-pass-save-america-act-again-putting-pressure-on-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thejoeroganpod.com\/?p=1601","title":{"rendered":"House Will Pass SAVE America Act Again, Putting Pressure on Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"

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House Speaker Mike Johnson has provided a big update this week on the SAVE America Act.<\/h3>\n

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Johnson recently met with President Donald Trump to discuss the bill and the importance it will have on ensuring election integrity across the country.<\/p>\n

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During an interview on Fox News, the Speaker revealed that the U.S. House will pass the SAVE America Act\u00a0\u201cone more time\u201d through a budget reconciliation process.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe big urgency is to get SAVE America passed. The president has that as a top priority, and so do I,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n

Johnson\u2019s approach would attempt to overcome that problem by including the SAVE America Act in a budget reconciliation bill.<\/p>\n

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That \u201cwill be the way to get it through the Senate and finally to the president\u2019s desk,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n

The reconciliation push would almost certainly fail in the Senate, which has strict rules limiting what can be included in budget bills.<\/p>\n

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It wouldn\u2019t be the first time the bill failed to ram through the U.S. Senate.<\/p>\n

But House Republicans are not backing down.<\/p>\n

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) bashed his counterparts in the Senate for not supporting the SAVE America Act.<\/p>\n

\u201cAre you that weak? That\u2019s my question to any Republican senator \u2014 are you that weak? To where if you vote for a valid ID to be shown to vote, you\u2019re gonna get beat in your home state?\u201d Comer said during an appearance on Fox News\u2019s \u201cThe Big Weekend Show.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, if you\u2019re that weak, you don\u2019t need to be a United States senator,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll that I\u2019m hearing from the Senate leadership is that they don\u2019t have the votes,\u201d Comer said, unless Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) is \u201ctalking exclusively\u201d with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.).<\/p>\n

\u201cNot only do they not have 60 votes, they don\u2019t have 50 votes \u2014 which I don\u2019t believe that,\u201d he added, referring to a simple majority vote that would occur if senators voted to eliminate the filibuster, as pushed by President Trump.<\/p>\n

Despite this, it does not appear that Senate GOP Leader John Thune is going to flex his political muscle to get the SAVE America Act passed.<\/p>\n

According to multiple sources cited by the Daily Caller, Leader Thune acknowledged during a Republican lunch meeting that some GOP senators\u00a0oppose Trump so strongly that they would never\u00a0support the legislation regardless of its merits.<\/p>\n

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The alleged remark came during a discussion about the SAVE America Act, an election integrity bill championed by Trump allies and sponsored in the Senate by Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee.<\/p>\n

Several sources familiar with the meeting confirmed to The Daily Caller that tensions escalated as lawmakers debated the bill\u2019s prospects.<\/p>\n

One source told the outlet that the reported exchange \u201ctotally happened.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thune\u2019s office\u00a0strongly disputed the account.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis is a baseless claim, and it is unequivocally untrue,\u201d a spokesperson for the majority leader told the Daily Caller.<\/p>\n

The disagreement reportedly unfolded during a contentious conversation involving Lee, Thune and Texas Republican Sen. John Cornyn.<\/p>\n

According to sources familiar with the meeting, Cornyn \u2013 who lost his primary earlier this month to Trump-backed Texas AG Ken Paxton \u2013 and Thune questioned Lee\u2019s strategy for advancing the legislation.<\/p>\n

Punchbowl News reporter Andrew Desiderio first reported the confrontation publicly.<\/p>\n

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Desiderio wrote on X that Republican senators confronted Lee during the closed-door lunch over his push for the SAVE America Act.<\/p>\n

He described the meeting as a \u201cpile-on\u201d against the Utah senator.<\/p>\n

According to Desiderio\u2019s reporting, some senators argued that Trump had been led to believe the legislation could pass the Senate, creating frustration when that particular outcome appeared unlikely.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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