House Rules Committee Approves Merging SAVE America Act With Defense Bill

The House Rules Committee approved an 8-4 rule on Monday that merges the SAVE America Act with the annual National Defense Authorization Act. The procedural maneuver allows the election bill to attach to the defense measure without requiring lawmakers to vote on it again. Rep.

Chip Roy, R-Texas, did not vote on the rule. Speaker Mike Johnson proposed the merger after conservative holdouts rejected enacting parts of the SAVE America Act in another bill last week. Rep. , wrote on X that the only way to ensure Senate passage is to include the SAVE Act in the NDAA bill text.

She added that 80 percent of Americans want the measure. Rep. , said during the Rules Committee debate that the Senate will strip the SAVE Act out of the NDAA. He stated there is a 0 percent chance the provision ends up in the bill because of the rule.

Under the approved rule, the attachment proceeds without an additional House vote. Leadership did not select a version of the election bill that includes all of President Donald Trump’s SAVE priorities, such as curtailing mail-in voting and banning men in women’s sports and child sex change procedures.

Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters that continuing the floor blockade would be a self-defeating approach.

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna told reporters that holding up the process is legislating, and Rep. , joined the protest. Tuesday’s vote will advance a spending bill funding the State Department and other foreign operations for fiscal year 2027.

It will also advance a resolution commemorating the one-year anniversary of President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, now referred to as the Working Families Tax Cuts. —in a Truth Social post. He wrote that the senators must vote to SAVE OUR COUNTRY and that there can be no more excuses.