Johnson made the remarks after Trump canceled a signing ceremony for the housing bill, which cleared both chambers by overwhelming margins.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday expressed support for using the reconciliation process to pass the SAVE America Act, a marquis voter ID bill, after President Donald Trump refused to sign a housing plan until lawmakers approved the measure.
Johnson made the remarks after Trump canceled a signing ceremony for the housing bill, which cleared both chambers by overwhelming margins.
"[Y]ou have to put it on a reconciliation bill. We believe that if you create a grant program that ties it to reconciling the budget, and you allow blue states, if they come to their senses and they want to avail themselves of election integrity proposals and ideas and policies, they can draw down from a federal fund, and use those funds," he told reporters. "We’re willing to invest heavily in that, and House Republicans will put together a reconciliation bill, reconciliation 3.0, that will have that."
Johnson also indicated that Trump was eager to see legislative progress on the initiative. The SAVE America Act has stalled in the Senate due to the 60-vote filibuster threshold. Thus far, Senate Majority Leader John Thune has declined to alter the filibuster rules or fire the Senate parliamentarian to get the bill passed through reconciliation.
Ben Whedon is the Chief Political Correspondent for Just the News. Follow him on X.
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