Speaker Mike Johnson told Fox News on 5 July that the House will try to pass the SAVE Act, a Republican voter-ID bill, through budget reconciliation, the fast-track process that needs only a Senate majority. He called it a priority he shares with President Trump. The move follows the House stripping his SAVE Act rider from the defence bill 198-224.
That vote came alongside a 30 June floor revolt led by Republican Representative Anna Paulina Luna, which blocked the procedural motion to open debate on the National Defense Authorization Act. The House has now passed SAVE Act language three times, and the Senate has never taken it up. Johnson has now tried three vehicles rather than winning the Senate votes.
Reconciliation runs into the Byrd Rule, which bars provisions with no direct budget effect from a reconciliation bill. Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough has already ruled that a similar voter-ID measure broke that rule. Unless she reverses herself on this text, the SAVE Act's citizenship-documentation requirement is unlikely to survive the Senate even by simple majority.
