Mike Johnson Signals House Will Forge Ahead After GOP Holdouts Threatened Obstruction Of Votes
House Speaker Mike Johnson told “Sunday Morning Futures” host Maria Bartiromo that the House of Representatives would be returning to Washington, D.C. to continue “good work” on legislation Monday.
House Speaker Mike Johnson told “Sunday Morning Futures” host Maria Bartiromo that the House of Representatives would be returning to Washington, D.C. to continue “good work” on legislation Monday.
Johnson postponed votes Friday after Republican Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna led a group of holdouts who threatened to not allow any legislation to move forward until the Senate passed the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act. Johnson told Bartiromo he told Luna and other “colleagues” that the “good work” Republicans had to do shouldn’t be derailed over Democratic obstruction of the election integrity measure in the Senate.
“I told Anna Paulina Luna and a couple other colleagues— I said, ‘It makes no sense for us to shut down our good work in the House just because Senate Democrats refuse to do the people’s will,’” Johnson told Bartiromo. “We’ve got a lot more to do, we’ve got to keep it going.”
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Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Thom Tillis of North Carolina, and Mitch McConnell of Kentucky joined 46 Democrats in voting down an amendment which would have attached the SAVE America Act to the immigration enforcement reconciliation bill President Donald Trump signed June 10.
Johnson told Bartiromo that House Republicans would put the SAVE America Act into a reconciliation bill, and that the GOP would also be working on the National Defense Authorization Act, reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and appropriations bills.