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{"id":24879,"date":"2026-06-26T12:02:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T12:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/capitol-agenda-house-gop-agenda-gets-tenuous-trump-lifeline\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T12:02:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T12:02:16","slug":"capitol-agenda-house-gop-agenda-gets-tenuous-trump-lifeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/capitol-agenda-house-gop-agenda-gets-tenuous-trump-lifeline\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitol agenda: House GOP agenda gets tenuous Trump lifeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>President Donald Trump handed Speaker Mike Johnson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/06\/25\/congress\/trump-tut-tuts-house-blockade-00977038\" target=\"_blank\">a lifeline Thursday<\/a> to get Republicans\u2019 agenda back on track next week.<\/p>\n<p>But hard-liners\u2019 festering discontent over Trump\u2019s stalled election bill could jam the chamber again.<\/p>\n<p>For now, members plan to return Monday and press forward on a long list of major legislation before Independence Day recess, including fiscal 2027 funding bills, the annual defense policy bill, a kids online safety bill and negotiations for a third reconciliation measure lawmakers want to stuff with party priorities.<\/p>\n<p>Trump Thursday instructed the band of GOP hard-liners to lift their procedural block of House floor business. Still, some are doubling down in new ways.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/06\/25\/anna-paulina-luna-save-america-house-00976560\" target=\"_blank\">engineered this week\u2019s impasse<\/a> through a blockade of procedural votes, said if leaders want her support to advance legislation next week, they\u2019ll need to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RepLuna\/status\/2070321115658940895?s=20\" target=\"_blank\">attach the SAVE America Act<\/a> to the defense policy bill.<\/p>\n<p>Senior House Republicans feel joining the bills would kill the must-pass defense legislation that typically wins bipartisan support. And Majority Leader John Thune said Thursday that attaching the two measures would also sink the defense bill in the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, another hard-liner, Rep. Chip Roy, responded to Trump\u2019s call to lift the House gridlock with a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/meredithllee\/status\/2070279409303441556?s=46\" target=\"_blank\">new list of legislative demands<\/a> for House leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson, for his part, focused on the positive. He told reporters at the Capitol after meeting Trump that he and the president are \u201con exactly the same page\u201d about stopping \u201cany blockade in the House.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also said Congress would be transmitting the housing affordability bill it cleared this week to the White House, after the president abruptly reversed course Wednesday on a signing ceremony for the bill and demanded Senate passage of the controversial election overhaul first.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>What else we\u2019re watching:\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>\u2014 HISPANIC CAUCUS BRACES FOR CHAIR&#8217;S SUCCESSOR<\/b>: Hispanic Caucus members are still reeling from Chair Adriano Espaillat\u2019s electoral defeat this week. But they\u2019re warily preparing to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/06\/25\/darializa-avila-chevalier-espaillat-chc-00977027\" target=\"_blank\"><u>welcome his successor \u2014 with some conditions<\/u><\/a>. Darializa Avila Chevalier<b>\u00a0<\/b>\u2014 a Democratic Socialist who ousted Espaillat in New York\u2019s primary Tuesday, said Thursday in a statement she plans to join the CHC when she gets to Congress, which is all but guaranteed in November.<\/p>\n<p><b>\u2014 COMER TO GRILL EPSTEIN-LINKED INVESTOR: <\/b>Investor Leon Black will speak to House Oversight Friday for an interview Chair James Comer has called \u201cthe big one\u201d in his panel\u2019s investigation of the Jeffrey Epstein case. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be hard for him to deny the questions we\u2019re going to ask,\u201d Comer told reporters this week.<\/p>\n<p><i>Meredith Lee Hill, Jordain Carney, Riley Rogerson and Hailey Fuchs contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump handed Speaker Mike Johnson a lifeline Thursday to get Republicans\u2019 agenda back on track next week. But hard-liners\u2019 festering discontent over Trump\u2019s stalled election bill could jam the chamber again. For now, members plan to return Monday and press forward on a long list of major legislation before Independence Day recess, including [&hellip;]<\/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-24879","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\/24879","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=24879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}