{"id":19819,"date":"2026-03-10T15:32:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T15:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trumps-revised-save-america-act-faces-headwinds-in-the-house\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T15:32:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T15:32:30","slug":"trumps-revised-save-america-act-faces-headwinds-in-the-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trumps-revised-save-america-act-faces-headwinds-in-the-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s revised SAVE America Act faces headwinds in the House"},"content":{"rendered":"
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DORAL, Florida \u2014 President Donald Trump\u2019s call for congressional action on an updated elections overhaul is facing serious doubts from senior House Republicans who aren\u2019t convinced it can pass the chamber a third time.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s demand for a near-total ban on mail voting, in particular, remains an obstacle. When GOP leaders put a version of the SAVE America Act on the House floor last month, they left out that provision, bowing to some Republicans\u2019 internal concerns.<\/p>\n

Those dynamics have not changed, according to four people granted anonymity to describe internal conversations, even after Trump told Speaker Mike Johnson at the House Republican policy retreat Monday to draft a new version of the bill<\/a> with the mail voting provision and other additions. <\/p>\n

Several members pressed Johnson on the SAVE America Act during a question-and-answer session behind closed doors Tuesday morning. But he remained noncommittal about how Congress would pass it, according to three people in the room, and noted Senate Majority Leader John Thune has raised concerns about the legislation<\/a> tying up the other chamber.<\/p>\n

Asked if the House could pass a third version of the legislation, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise said in a brief interview that Republicans would \u201cbe talking about that\u201d during their closed-door meetings.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, obviously we passed the SAVE America Act, which is all of the things \u2014 you know, prove citizenship, show ID to vote \u2014 that’s over in the Senate, and there’s a lot of momentum building to get the Senate to move that bill to the president’s desk,\u201d Scalise said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I know that momentum is going to keep building,\u201d he added. \u201cObviously, we’re talking these next few days about the remaining things we’re going to do this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DORAL, Florida \u2014 President Donald Trump\u2019s call for congressional action on an updated elections overhaul is facing serious doubts from senior House Republicans who aren\u2019t convinced it can pass the chamber a third time. Trump\u2019s demand for a near-total ban on mail voting, in particular, remains an obstacle. When GOP leaders put a version of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}