House cuts work short for second week as rebels freeze floor
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Comments: by Emily Brooks - 06/30/26 4:50 PM ET Comments: Link copied by Emily Brooks - 06/30/26 4:50 PM ET Comments: Link copied NOW PLAYING House Republican leaders are set to send the chamber home early for the second week in a row amid mounting tensions after GOP rebels on Tuesday again blocked action on the House floor.
Leaders will send the chamber home after votes at 5:15 pm on Tuesday, two GOP sources confirmed, after rebels blocked a procedural vote that would have teed up action on the annual defense authorization bill. Votes had been scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday. The chamber already had a scheduled recess next week and will return July 13.
Frustration is building on both sides of the impasse. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) voiced his discontent with members blocking procedural votes over the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act, a bill pushed by President Trump that would require voter ID to cast a ballot and proof of citizenship for voter registration. The House has passed that bill multiple times but it is stalled in the Senate.
“It makes no sense for us to stop our very important progress forward from House Republicans, because some Senate Democrats are refusing to do their job,” Johnson told reporters Tuesday after the procedural vote on the defense bill and SAVE America Act. Most major legislation in the Senate requires 60 votes to advance, requiring support from some Democrats. Trump and other Republicans have called on Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) to upend Senate traditions and practices to muscle the legislation through the upper chamber and to the president’s desk but Thune has said there is not enough support in the GOP to do that.
Those dynamics have infuriated the most ardent Trump allies in the House, who are now eying any piece of must-pass legislation as leverage to try to force the Senate to swallow the SAVE America Act. Last week, they blocked action on two regular funding bills. This week, they blocked the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
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