DORAL, Florida — House GOP leaders discussed trying to attach military aid to a party-line policy package during a closed-door meeting Tuesday afternoon, according to three people granted anonymity to share details of private conversations.

Speaker Mike Johnson and his team are weighing a variety of options, including the filibuster-skirting budget reconciliation process, to pass some or all of the tens of billions of dollars in funding they expect the Pentagon to request in the coming days to assist in the U.S. conflict with Iran.

The leadership meeting, which took place on the sidelines of the House GOP policy retreat in Florida this week, comes as Republicans are still weighing whether they can even muster the votes for another megabill given their razor-thin margins and the tight window in which to legislate during an election year.

Rep. James Comer says he’s working to schedule testimonies from Attorney General Pam Bondi and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick within the next few weeks as part of the congressional investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

“I’m in communication with them,” Comer (R-Ky.), the chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, told reporters Wednesday morning as he prepared to attend a deposition with Richard Kahn, Epstein’s accountant. “We’re trying to get them in very, very soon.”

Comer’s panel voted to subpoena Bondi last week to compel her testimony about the Justice Department’s handling of the Epstein case, amid mounting criticism that DOJ officials slow-walked the release of the files and bungled the redactions in published materials.

Lutnick last week agreed to speak voluntarily with investigators under threat of being subpoenaed by the Oversight Committee. Lawmakers want him to discuss the full extent of his relationship with the disgraced financier, after Lutnick recently admitted he had lunch with Epstein after previously claiming they had severed ties. He has not been accused of any wrongdoing.

Sen. John Cornyn threw his support behind scrapping the filibuster to pass a voting restrictions bill President Donald Trump has called his “No. 1 priority” in Congress, as the Texas Republican continues to seek the president’s endorsement and stave off a bruising primary runoff election.

Trump has held off on endorsing Cornyn, the pick of top Senate Republicans, over Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in a bid to pressure leadership to lower the threshold of votes needed to pass the SAVE America Act, which would enact citizenship and photo ID restrictions in elections while also targeting transgender rights. Paxton has said he would suspend his bid if the bill passes.

Cornyn, long a supporter of the Senate filibuster, came out forcefully for repealing the rule in a Wednesday morning New York Post op-ed.

“After careful consideration, I support whatever changes to Senate rules that may prove necessary for us to get the SAVE America Act and homeland security funding past the Democrats’ obstruction, through the Senate, and on the president’s desk for his signature,” he wrote.

Trump called on Republicans to pass the SAVE America Act in a speech at his golf club in Doral, Florida, on Monday, arguing, “I don’t think we should approve anything until this is approved.”

“It will guarantee the midterms,” he said. “If you don’t get it, big trouble, my opinion.”

Asked Tuesday about the talking filibuster, Cornyn indicated to reporters he would support it to pass the SAVE America Act and teased he would be making a longer announcement Wednesday.

“On these critical issues, at this critical hour, the old procedures no longer align with the core American principles we must defend,” he wrote. “ It is time for our Senate Republican Conference, led by our strong and strategic Majority Leader John Thune, to retake the initiative, rebuild momentum and get results.”

Jordain Carney contributed to this report.