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BumRushDaShow

(174,021 posts)
Sun Jul 5, 2026, 04:15 PM 11 hrs ago

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

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

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Speaker Johnson says House will pass Trump's voter ID bill through arduous process after GOP revolt (Original Post) BumRushDaShow 11 hrs ago OP
Archive link: littlemissmartypants 11 hrs ago #1
by the time they pass this it will be too late get the documents rampartd 11 hrs ago #2
It'll have to get 60 votes in the Senate first. sinkingfeeling 11 hrs ago #6
maybe. rampartd 11 hrs ago #7
It will never get 60 votes in the Senate. ananda 10 hrs ago #9
They're going to do it via reconciliation... regnaD kciN 10 hrs ago #13
I thought reconciliation was for budgets. ananda 10 hrs ago #14
The GQP will stoop as low as necessary to retain power groundloop 8 hrs ago #27
It is. wnylib 7 hrs ago #28
That is my understanding too Nictuku 7 hrs ago #29
this can't go to reconciliation. that's already been floated but it doesn't apply here. nt Javaman 9 hrs ago #16
SAVE was already ruled out for reconciliation a month ago by the Parliamentarian BumRushDaShow 9 hrs ago #17
Trump has been telling them to ignore the Parliamentarian. hedda_foil 9 hrs ago #18
And Thune knows what will happen if they kill the filibuster - and they don't have enough votes to do that anyway BumRushDaShow 8 hrs ago #20
a wandering bullet dave99 6 hrs ago #33
he won't live that long nt orleans 5 hrs ago #36
Can Republicans count on their new best bud Fetterman to help them out? Bengus81 9 hrs ago #19
100% sure about that bluestarone 8 hrs ago #26
If they can't do it before the midterms, it will never happen. Baitball Blogger 10 hrs ago #11
No it won't Wiz Imp 4 hrs ago #37
Not if they get it it on a budget bill Miguelito Loveless 8 hrs ago #21
It was already ruled as a violation of the Byrd Rule last month BumRushDaShow 8 hrs ago #23
Can't be included in reconcilliation. Violates the rules. Wiz Imp 4 hrs ago #38
Not if he can get it in a budget reconciliation process karynnj 8 hrs ago #22
It was already smacked down by the Parliamentarian last month BumRushDaShow 8 hrs ago #24
Yes it was. I should have said that. karynnj 8 hrs ago #25
He's only doing this to shut whiny Luna up BumRushDaShow 6 hrs ago #31
The fucking media isn't even talking about anything but the photo ID. They are normalizing this shit. Karasu 10 hrs ago #8
When you video on Media bosses, they say nothing dave99 6 hrs ago #35
Remember when the House was created to express the will of their constituents and not that of party or president? sinkingfeeling 11 hrs ago #3
Such an exercise in futility Fiendish Thingy 11 hrs ago #4
I hate these monsters UpInArms 11 hrs ago #5
What a Ridiculous Waste of Time Trumpdumper 10 hrs ago #10
How is it possible to pass this in the house when there are so many rogue Republican legislators. Baitball Blogger 10 hrs ago #12
And what does voter id have to do with the budget? Sneederbunk 10 hrs ago #15
Speaker Johnson can't hold his own member without dribbling down his leg Xipe Totec 7 hrs ago #30
He looks like an unpopular school kid trying to be popular. But only has a few sycophants . C Moon 3 hrs ago #39
He's bluffing. He has nothing. Martin68 6 hrs ago #32
if 6 Republican Senators drop dead and 19 Republican Representatives ? dave99 6 hrs ago #34
Mikey J: "We'll come back, gather everybody together...." area51 3 hrs ago #40
He claims he's their protector Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 2 hrs ago #41
Not a budget item so cannot use reconciliation process. And the Senate won't do it. Ford_Prefect 2 hrs ago #42
Johnson is just putting on a show for fans BaronChocula 27 min ago #43

rampartd

(5,678 posts)
2. by the time they pass this it will be too late get the documents
Sun Jul 5, 2026, 04:27 PM
11 hrs ago

start now.

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


regnaD kciN

(27,762 posts)
13. They're going to do it via reconciliation...
Sun Jul 5, 2026, 04:57 PM
10 hrs ago

…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.

groundloop

(14,022 posts)
27. The GQP will stoop as low as necessary to retain power
Sun Jul 5, 2026, 07:37 PM
8 hrs ago

And with our current right wing activist Supreme Court there's always the chance they'll get away with this nonsense.

Nictuku

(4,693 posts)
29. That is my understanding too
Sun Jul 5, 2026, 07:53 PM
7 hrs ago

Lets not forget that TSF wanted to have Sen. Thune fire the Parliamentarian, who will be the one to shoot this down if it has provisions that are not budgetary.

Javaman

(66,046 posts)
16. this can't go to reconciliation. that's already been floated but it doesn't apply here. nt
Sun Jul 5, 2026, 05:58 PM
9 hrs ago

BumRushDaShow

(174,021 posts)
17. SAVE was already ruled out for reconciliation a month ago by the Parliamentarian
Sun Jul 5, 2026, 06:05 PM
9 hrs ago
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

(17,067 posts)
18. Trump has been telling them to ignore the Parliamentarian.
Sun Jul 5, 2026, 06:25 PM
9 hrs ago

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?

BumRushDaShow

(174,021 posts)
20. And Thune knows what will happen if they kill the filibuster - and they don't have enough votes to do that anyway
Sun Jul 5, 2026, 06:42 PM
8 hrs ago

Just like Democrats couldn't muster the votes to do that in 2021 so we could codify Roe and pass 2 voting-related bills (and Schumer tried multiple times).

karynnj

(61,271 posts)
22. Not if he can get it in a budget reconciliation process
Sun Jul 5, 2026, 07:01 PM
8 hrs ago

However, I think the parliamentarian in the Senate may disallow that as it doesn't meet the rules.

karynnj

(61,271 posts)
25. Yes it was. I should have said that.
Sun Jul 5, 2026, 07:22 PM
8 hrs ago

More importantly, the article should have pointed that out instead of implicitly giving Johnson credit for planning an arduous path to passage.

BumRushDaShow

(174,021 posts)
31. He's only doing this to shut whiny Luna up
Sun Jul 5, 2026, 08:40 PM
6 hrs ago

and kick the can back to Thune.

Reconciliation is not a House Rule but a Senate Rule, so Johnson is irrelevant and he and the House have to adapt their legislation to pass muster in the Senate or the Senate will do it themselves, and strip stuff out of the House version.

Karasu

(2,414 posts)
8. The fucking media isn't even talking about anything but the photo ID. They are normalizing this shit.
Sun Jul 5, 2026, 04:42 PM
10 hrs ago

sinkingfeeling

(58,309 posts)
3. Remember when the House was created to express the will of their constituents and not that of party or president?
Sun Jul 5, 2026, 04:28 PM
11 hrs ago

Trumpdumper

(239 posts)
10. What a Ridiculous Waste of Time
Sun Jul 5, 2026, 04:44 PM
10 hrs ago

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

(52,947 posts)
12. How is it possible to pass this in the house when there are so many rogue Republican legislators.
Sun Jul 5, 2026, 04:55 PM
10 hrs ago

Xipe Totec

(44,607 posts)
30. Speaker Johnson can't hold his own member without dribbling down his leg
Sun Jul 5, 2026, 08:34 PM
7 hrs ago

Let alone 218 Republican House members infighting and in disarray.

C Moon

(13,839 posts)
39. He looks like an unpopular school kid trying to be popular. But only has a few sycophants .
Sun Jul 5, 2026, 11:40 PM
3 hrs ago

area51

(12,804 posts)
40. Mikey J: "We'll come back, gather everybody together...."
Sun Jul 5, 2026, 11:49 PM
3 hrs ago

And what? Make them an offer they can't refuse?

BaronChocula

(5,029 posts)
43. Johnson is just putting on a show for fans
Mon Jul 6, 2026, 03:11 AM
27 min ago

He can say he's going to do something that's impossible to appease a group of morons, but it doesn't reopen the doors that have already closed on this monstrosity.

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