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With nan House facing a jam-packed last week earlier August recess, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is making clear lawmakers won't time off Washington until they decorativeness their work.
Asked by Fox News connected Monday whether he would nonstop nan House location early if GOP leaders grounded to triumph a captious ballot slated for Tuesday day that would tee up information of respective awesome bills, Johnson had a speedy three-word response.
"I will not," he said.
The speaker’s comments travel arsenic he attempts this week to put a GOP-authored banal trading prohibition connected nan level on pinch a stopgap spending measurement backing nan authorities done nan midterm elections, while bringing a must-pass annual defense argumentation bill up for a 2nd time.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, Republican of Louisiana, speaks to members of nan media aft a gathering pinch House Republicans astatine nan U.S. Capitol successful Washington, D.C. connected July 15, 2026. (Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
GOP'S $95B DEFENSE PACKAGE SURVIVES CRITICAL HURDLE AMID FISCAL HAWK REVOLT
GOP leaders are besides racing to walk a $95 cardinal fund model providing for $73 cardinal successful defense and intelligence backing arsenic nan Iran warfare drags connected while besides backing agriculture and predetermination integrity priorities. The Trump-endorsed blueprint has spurred disapproval from fiscal conservatives, who reason it lacks spending offsets.
The first trial comes Monday evening erstwhile nan House Rules Committee is expected to study retired a norm mounting up a chamber-wide procedural ballot connected nan legislative items Tuesday.
Given House Republicans’ slim margins, Johnson tin spend to suffer conscionable 3 GOP defections if each members are coming and voting.
House conservatives person many times demonstrated a willingness to ballot down party-line procedural votes this twelvemonth complete various concerns, including vexation complete nan SAVE America Act stalling successful nan Senate.
"The truth that location is nary payfor and nary connection defunding Planned Parenthood is capable for maine to ballot no," Rep. Eric Burlison, R-Mo., a fiscal hawk, told Fox News Digital connected Monday, regarding nan fund framework.
Trump urged Republicans successful a Truth Social station Monday to support nan fund plan, arguing it would see arsenic overmuch of nan predetermination measurement "as possible."
President Donald Trump addresses nan federation from nan East Room of nan White House connected July 16, 2026, successful Washington, D.C. (Saul Loeb/Pool - Getty Images)
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Burlison has voiced interest astir getting elements of nan SAVE America Act done nan Senate’s stringent fund reconciliation requirements — a process successful which nan Senate parliamentarian plays an outsize role.
"I americium unfastened to a speech pinch nan management connected really we tin guarantee that nan SAVE connection is coagulated and what we mightiness beryllium capable to do pinch stopping abortions by mail," he told Fox News Digital.
Meanwhile, Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., said Monday that Congress should enactment successful Washington until a short-term backing package and nan SAVE America Act scope Trump’s desk.
"After this week, nan House and Senate won’t beryllium successful convention astatine nan aforesaid clip again until SEPTEMBER 14 if we support nan existent schedule," he wrote connected societal media. "That’s insane. We STILL request to walk nan SAVE America Act and forestall Democrats from shutting down nan authorities successful October."
Senator Rick Scott, a Republican from Florida, successful nan Senate Subway during a ballot astatine nan US Capitol successful Washington, DC, US, connected Friday, March 14, 2025 (Allison Robbert/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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"This would NOT alert successful nan business world. We request to enactment present until we get ALL our activity done. That’s what nan American group expect of us," he continued.
