Speaker Johnson says House will pass Trump's voter ID bill through arduous process after GOP revolt

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: CNN Politics

PUBLISHED Jul 5, 2026, 1:53 PM ET


House Speaker Mike Johnson said he plans to move quickly to advance President Donald Trump’s signature voter ID legislation through the arduous budget reconciliation process once the House returns to Washington, downplaying the heightened tensions within the GOP after he sent lawmakers home early for the holidays after a few Republicans brought the floor to a halt.

“I just decided it was best to send everybody home to go celebrate July Fourth in their districts. We’ll come back, gather everybody together,” he told Fox News on Sunday. “The big urgency is to get SAVE America passed. The president has that as a top priority, and so do I.”

Last week, a small group of conservative hardliners, led by Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, effectively blocked a key procedural vote to advance several bills on the floor out of protest that Congress had not sent the SAVE America Act to the president’s desk.

Driven by frustration, Trump has already held up a critical intelligence nomination and declined to sign a major bipartisan housing package, despite Senate GOP leaders insisting that they do not have the 60 votes needed to overcome the filibuster and proceed with the elections overhaul bill.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/05/politics/johnson-house-voter-id-bill

[littlemissmartypants]

1. Archive link:

https://archive.is/krXUd

❤️

[rampartd]

2. by the time they pass this it will be too late get the documents

start now.

state id
birth certificate
social security card
marriage documents
divorce documents
adoption documents
passport

[sinkingfeeling]

6. It'll have to get 60 votes in the Senate first.

[rampartd]

7. maybe.

this has been on the wish list for a long time. eventually it will pass.

[ananda]

9. It will never get 60 votes in the Senate.

...

[regnaD kciN]

13. They're going to do it via reconciliation...

…so it will only need 50 plus CouchBoy.

The only question is if the Senate parliamentarian rules it isn’t valid in a reconciliation bill and, if so, if the Republican majority opts to disregard that ruling for the first time ever.

[ananda]

14. I thought reconciliation was for budgets.

???

[groundloop]

27. The GQP will stoop as low as necessary to retain power

And with our current right wing activist Supreme Court there's always the chance they'll get away with this nonsense.

[wnylib]

28. It is.

[Nictuku]

29. That is my understanding too

Lets not forget that TSF wanted to have Sen. Thune fire the Parliamentarian, who will be the one to shoot this down if it has provisions that are not budgetary.

[Javaman]

16. this can't go to reconciliation. that's already been floated but it doesn't apply here. nt

[BumRushDaShow]

17. SAVE was already ruled out for reconciliation a month ago by the Parliamentarian

Trump calls on Thune to fire Senate parliamentarian to pass SAVE America Act

(snip)

The parliamentarian ruled that the SAVE America Act did not comply with the Senate’s Byrd Rule, which determines what legislation is eligible to be included in a budget reconciliation package that can pass with a simple-majority vote, thereby avoiding a filibuster and 60-vote threshold.

As a result, Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) — two Trump allies — had to ask for 60 votes to waive the budgetary objections in order to consider their proposals to amend the budget reconciliation package with the SAVE America Act.

Both motions fell well short of sixty votes.

(snip)

That's why it was briefly floated to stick it on the annual NDAA and Thune all but guaranteed that it would be stripped from that.

Doing the same thing over and over is the proverbial "definition of insanity".

[hedda_foil]

18. Trump has been telling them to ignore the Parliamentarian.

There are still another 2-1/2 years left in this term (providing he lives that long and doesn't decide to be declared dictator for life). Can the institutions we know and love possibly hold out that long?

[BumRushDaShow]

20. And Thune knows what will happen if they kill the filibuster - and they don't have enough votes to do that anyway

Just like Democrats couldn't muster the votes to do that in 2021 so we could codify Roe and pass 2 voting-related bills (and Schumer tried multiple times).

[dave99]

33. a wandering bullet

[orleans]

36. he won't live that long nt

[Bengus81]

19. Can Republicans count on their new best bud Fetterman to help them out?

[bluestarone]

26. 100% sure about that

[Baitball Blogger]

11. If they can't do it before the midterms, it will never happen.

[Wiz Imp]

37. No it won't

[Miguelito Loveless]

21. Not if they get it it on a budget bill

Then it is 51 votes.

[BumRushDaShow]

23. It was already ruled as a violation of the Byrd Rule last month

as a non-budget policy rider - https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=3690308

[Wiz Imp]

38. Can't be included in reconcilliation. Violates the rules.

That's already been decided.

[karynnj]

22. Not if he can get it in a budget reconciliation process

However, I think the parliamentarian in the Senate may disallow that as it doesn't meet the rules.

[BumRushDaShow]

24. It was already smacked down by the Parliamentarian last month

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=3690308

[karynnj]

25. Yes it was. I should have said that.

More importantly, the article should have pointed that out instead of implicitly giving Johnson credit for planning an arduous path to passage.

[BumRushDaShow]

31. He's only doing this to shut whiny Luna up

and kick the can back to Thune.

Reconciliation is not a House Rule but a Senate Rule, so Johnson is irrelevant and he and the House have to adapt their legislation to pass muster in the Senate or the Senate will do it themselves, and strip stuff out of the House version.

[Karasu]

8. The fucking media isn't even talking about anything but the photo ID. They are normalizing this shit.

[dave99]

35. When you video on Media bosses, they say nothing

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Remember when the House was created to express the will of their constituents and not that of party or president?

[Fiendish Thingy]

4. Such an exercise in futility

Republicans in the senate have already declared the bill DOA.

[UpInArms]

5. I hate these monsters

Mike Johnson is a hideous excuse for a human

[Trumpdumper]

10. What a Ridiculous Waste of Time

No chance of Senate concurrence. And even if THAT happened, it would not pass constitutional muster. Roberts and Barrett would side with the liberals.

[Baitball Blogger]

12. How is it possible to pass this in the house when there are so many rogue Republican legislators.

[Sneederbunk]

15. And what does voter id have to do with the budget?

[Xipe Totec]

30. Speaker Johnson can't hold his own member without dribbling down his leg

Let alone 218 Republican House members infighting and in disarray.

[C Moon]

39. He looks like an unpopular school kid trying to be popular. But only has a few sycophants .

[Martin68]

32. He's bluffing. He has nothing.

[dave99]

34. if 6 Republican Senators drop dead and 19 Republican Representatives ?

[area51]

40. Mikey J: "We'll come back, gather everybody together...."

And what? Make them an offer they can't refuse?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

41. He claims he's their protector

[Ford_Prefect]

42. Not a budget item so cannot use reconciliation process. And the Senate won't do it.

[BaronChocula]

43. Johnson is just putting on a show for fans

He can say he's going to do something that's impossible to appease a group of morons, but it doesn't reopen the doors that have already closed on this monstrosity.