House Reopens Floor Days After Holdouts Shut It Down Over SAVE America Act

The House of Representatives reopened the floor Tuesday by passing a rule to debate pieces of legislation.

The House shut down on June 30 after 13 House Republicans voted down a procedural vote to debate attaching the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The chamber voted to debate four rules after holdouts, including Republican Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, voted in favor of a procedural vote to debate several bills.

Luna said Monday she would support a rule to reopen the floor if the SAVE America Act was attached to every appropriations bill. Republicans attached the SAVE America Act to the National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2027 through MIRVing, which will be debated on the floor.

Luna initially opposed Speaker Mike Johnson’s plan to attach the SAVE America Act to the NDAA through MIRVing, a process where lawmakers attach unrelated bills into a single massive package.

“We will try the MIRV process on the condition that Speaker Johnson attaches the SAVE America Act to all the appropriation bills and all must-pass bills here in the House and ensures it is sent to the Senate as one bill,” Luna said on X. “If John Thune strips it out in the Senate that will be on him and the entire country should be watching what he does. If he wants to actively work against Voter I.D. & the SAVE America Act he must face the consequences of his actions. His State party should censure him and/or he should be primaried if he wants to betray his constituents in this manner. That is the nature of politics.”

During the June 30 vote, Luna wanted the SAVE America Act included in the NDAA text so the Senate could not easily strip it from the package. Johnson argued the Senate could also remove the election integrity bill from the package through Luna’s method.

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise voted “no” as a procedural move to offer a motion to reconsider the vote on the NDAA, which could allow the vote to be taken up again.

President Donald Trump refused to sign a bipartisan housing bill over the SAVE America Act and threatened to oppose reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) unless the SAVE America Act was attached.

The House voted to advance the “Protecting Privacy in Purchases Act,” which would ban payment card networks from assigning specific codes to track lawful gun transactions or identify firearm retailers as being engaged in the business of selling firearms.