Speaker Johnson says House will pass Trump's voter ID bill through arduous process after GOP revolt

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: CNN Politics

PUBLISHED Jul 5, 2026, 1:53 PM ET


House Speaker Mike Johnson said he plans to move quickly to advance President Donald Trump’s signature voter ID legislation through the arduous budget reconciliation process once the House returns to Washington, downplaying the heightened tensions within the GOP after he sent lawmakers home early for the holidays after a few Republicans brought the floor to a halt.

“I just decided it was best to send everybody home to go celebrate July Fourth in their districts. We’ll come back, gather everybody together,” he told Fox News on Sunday. “The big urgency is to get SAVE America passed. The president has that as a top priority, and so do I.”

Last week, a small group of conservative hardliners, led by Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, effectively blocked a key procedural vote to advance several bills on the floor out of protest that Congress had not sent the SAVE America Act to the president’s desk.

Driven by frustration, Trump has already held up a critical intelligence nomination and declined to sign a major bipartisan housing package, despite Senate GOP leaders insisting that they do not have the 60 votes needed to overcome the filibuster and proceed with the elections overhaul bill.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/05/politics/johnson-house-voter-id-bill

[littlemissmartypants]

1. Archive link:

https://archive.is/krXUd

❤️

[rampartd]

2. by the time they pass this it will be too late get the documents

start now.

state id
birth certificate
social security card
marriage documents
divorce documents
adoption documents
passport

[sinkingfeeling]

6. It'll have to get 60 votes in the Senate first.

[rampartd]

7. maybe.

this has been on the wish list for a long time. eventually it will pass.

[ananda]

9. It will never get 60 votes in the Senate.

...

[regnaD kciN]

13. They're going to do it via reconciliation...

…so it will only need 50 plus CouchBoy.

The only question is if the Senate parliamentarian rules it isn’t valid in a reconciliation bill and, if so, if the Republican majority opts to disregard that ruling for the first time ever.

[ananda]

14. I thought reconciliation was for budgets.

???

[Javaman]

16. this can't go to reconciliation. that's already been floated but it doesn't apply here. nt

[BumRushDaShow]

17. SAVE was already ruled out for reconciliation a month ago by the Parliamentarian

Trump calls on Thune to fire Senate parliamentarian to pass SAVE America Act

(snip)

The parliamentarian ruled that the SAVE America Act did not comply with the Senate’s Byrd Rule, which determines what legislation is eligible to be included in a budget reconciliation package that can pass with a simple-majority vote, thereby avoiding a filibuster and 60-vote threshold.

As a result, Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) — two Trump allies — had to ask for 60 votes to waive the budgetary objections in order to consider their proposals to amend the budget reconciliation package with the SAVE America Act.

Both motions fell well short of sixty votes.

(snip)

That's why it was briefly floated to stick it on the annual NDAA and Thune all but guaranteed that it would be stripped from that.

Doing the same thing over and over is the proverbial "definition of insanity".

[hedda_foil]

18. Trump has been telling them to ignore the Parliamentarian.

There are still another 2-1/2 years left in this term (providing he lives that long and doesn't decide to be declared dictator for life). Can the institutions we know and love possibly hold out that long?

[Baitball Blogger]

11. If they can't do it before the midterms, it will never happen.

[Karasu]

8. The fucking media isn't even talking about anything but the photo ID. They are normalizing this shit.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Remember when the House was created to express the will of their constituents and not that of party or president?

[Fiendish Thingy]

4. Such an exercise in futility

Republicans in the senate have already declared the bill DOA.

[UpInArms]

5. I hate these monsters

Mike Johnson is a hideous excuse for a human

[Trumpdumper]

10. What a Ridiculous Waste of Time

No chance of Senate concurrence. And even if THAT happened, it would not pass constitutional muster. Roberts and Barrett would side with the liberals.

[Baitball Blogger]

12. How is it possible to pass this in the house when there are so many rogue Republican legislators.

[Sneederbunk]

15. And what does voter id have to do with the budget?