Another two-week vacation -- After GOP Members Rebel, House Stalls Trump Agenda and Heads For Early Holiday Recess

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https://time.com/article/2026/07/01/gop-republican-house-defense-save-america-act/

After GOP Members Rebel, House Stalls Trump Agenda and Heads For Early Holiday Recess
by Chad de Guzman

House Republican leaders sent lawmakers home for a nearly two-week holiday recess Tuesday after several hardline conservative members rebelled on the floor to demand stronger action on President Donald Trump’s much-desired voter identification bill.

It’s the second straight week that House floor activity has been brought to a standstill over the SAVE America Act, a Republican-written measure that the President has pressured Congress to pass. The legislative impasse before the Fourth of July weekend dealt another blow to Speaker Mike Johnson, who has struggled to rein in an increasingly fractious and razor-thin majority in the chamber.

The continuing blockade from GOP hardliners came despite Trump’s plea to stop their “grandstanding” in the chamber, after lawmakers said they would block other legislation from advancing until the Senate passes the SAVE America Act. That also canceled last Friday’s votes.

“It makes no sense for us to stop our very important progress forward from House Republicans, because some Senate Democrats are refusing to do their job,” Johnson said after the vote. “That’s where we are. That’s the reality of it.”

The Tuesday impasse was partly over a rule with language that would have merged the SAVE America Act with the National Defense Authorization Act, a defense budget bill, once it passed the House. Johnson had said he would use “MIRVing,” a process in which a procedural rule packages together separately passed legislation before being sent to the Senate.

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