House GOP leaders are pulling a long-stalled college athletics bill from a planned House vote for a second time after they failed to secure the required votes, according to two people granted anonymity to describe internal deliberations.

The SCORE Act, if enacted, would reshape oversight of college athletics in the “name, image and likeness” era of student-athlete compensation. But a pocket of GOP opposition has imperiled the bill, even after Republican leaders negotiated alterations with Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) and others.

Last week, Republicans on the leadership whip team privately acknowledged the bill was in trouble as Reps. Scott Perry (R-Pa.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and others remained skeptical of the entire effort.

Speaker Mike Johnson, who would need near GOP unanimity to pass a procedural measure teeing up the bill for a final vote, said in an interview Friday he would talk to Perry and others but remained confident he could get the legislation across the finish line.

While Democrats were never expected to support that procedural step, the Congressional Black Caucus dealt a significant blow to the overall legislation Monday when the influential Democratic group came out against the bill, threatening any semblance of bipartisanship.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has scheduled a Tuesday news conference with NAACP President Derrick Johnson to rail against the legislation.

The two people familiar with the decision to pull the bill said it was a result of both the CBC move and continued opposition from Perry and Donalds, who is running for governor of Florida.

The all-Democratic Congressional Black Caucus announced its unanimous opposition Monday evening to what was once a bipartisan college athletics bill, with even two of the original co-sponsors withdrawing their support.

“The Congressional Black Caucus cannot support legislation benefiting major athletic institutions that continue to remain silent while Black voting rights and Black political power are being systematically dismantled across the South,” caucus members said in a joint statement.

Their opposition to the so-called SCORE Act is noteworthy as CBC Reps. Janelle Bynum (D-Ore.) and Shomari Figures (D-Ala.) helped introduce the legislation last year. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has since tried to negotiate with GOP hard-liners to overcome roadblocks on his side of the aisle related to international student scholarships.

But the CBC’s united front against the legislation also comes in the wake of the recent Supreme Court decision that will allow Republican-led states to eliminate majority-minority districts across the South — a major blow to the House’s Black power base. House Democrats have vowed to retaliate against the GOP in pursuit of a House majority next term by whatever means necessary, and this could be a step toward that end.

“This is not politics as usual,” the members said. “This is a defining moral moment for our country.”

The caucus also has sent letters to SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey, ACC Commissioner James Phillips and NCAA President Charlie Baker demanding a public response to the “ongoing assault on Black political representation throughout the South and across the nation.”

“For generations, Black athletes have helped build college athletics into one of the most powerful and profitable industries in American life. The success, visibility, and cultural influence of major athletic conferences and institutions are inseparable from the talent, labor, leadership, and cultural contributions of Black communities,” the CBC members said in their statement. “Yet at the very moment those same communities face coordinated attacks on their democratic representation, too many leaders across college athletics have chosen silence.”

They continued, “The Congressional Black Caucus believes institutions that profit from Black talent and Black communities have a responsibility to stand with those communities when their fundamental rights are under attack. Silence in the face of injustice is not neutrality — it is complicity.”

House Republican leaders are forging ahead on a bipartisan housing affordability bill Wednesday — without the partisan elections bill President Donald Trump demanded to be attached over the weekend.

Four people granted anonymity to describe internal deliberations said there are no plans to add in the SAVE America Act as Trump demanded on Truth Social — a version of which the House passed in February.

“We’ve already passed it,” one senior House GOP aide said, calling passage of the elections bill a Senate issue.

The episode underscores how President Donald Trump is wielding immense sway over his party by torpedoing the reelection bids of some Republicans who have defied him in recent years — most recently, Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, whose bid for renomination failed Saturday.

But on Capitol Hill, Trump has repeatedly failed to force GOP leaders to heed some of his biggest policy demands — particularly in forcing them to add the SAVE America Act, which would tougher proof-of-citizenship requirements for voting, to must-pass bipartisan bills.

Trump has demanded action on the bill since at least March, when he told House Republicans at their policy retreat that “I don’t think we should approve anything until this is approved.”

He said in his Saturday post that “THE SAVE AMERICA ACT MUST BE PASSED, NOW” using “the Housing and FISA Bills to get it done!” The latter reference is to a must-pass reauthorization of federal surveillance powers that expire next month.

Adding the legislation to any must-pass bill would represent a “poison pill” for Democrats, who are blocking the elections bill from proceeding in the Senate. Trump has also asked GOP leaders there to overturn the 60-vote filibuster rule to pass it, but a critical mass of Republicans opposes that move.

“It cannot pass here. It will not pass here,” a Senate GOP aide said.

The housing bill is expected to move through the House under special fast-track procedures that will require a significant number of Democratic votes to pass.