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Posted on 02/03/2026 7:17:21 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Bill passes 217-214 despite GOP opposition over election integrity provisions and DHS funding concerns
Twenty-one Republicans broke with President Donald Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., on Tuesday evening in an attempt to derail a $1.2 trillion spending bill to end a government shutdown, citing concerns that the legislation didn’t do enough to advance GOP priorities.
Among a range of reasons, lawmakers argued the bill needed to include provisions shoring up election integrity, come with full-year funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and eliminate Democrat-requested earmarks.
The lawmakers that voted against the measure included:
Reps. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., Josh Brecheen, R-Okla., Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., Eric Burlison, R-Mo., Kat Cammack, R-Fla., Eli Crane, R-Ariz., Byron Donalds, R-Fla., Randy Fine, R-Fla., Brandon Gill, R-Texas, Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., Thomas Massie, R-Ky., Cory Mills, R-Fla., Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., Scott Perry, R-Pa., Chip Roy, R-Texas, David Schweikert, R-Ariz., Keith Self, R-Texas, Victoria Spartz, R-Ind., Greg Steube, R-Fla., and William Timmons, R-S.C.
TRUMP UNDERCUTS GOP PUSH TO ATTACH SAVE ACT TO SHUTDOWN BILL AS CONSERVATIVES THREATEN MUTINY
Thomas Massie, R-Ky., condemned what he saw as a failure to shore up election integrity with the exclusion of the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act — a bill requiring photo ID for registering voters looking to participate in federal elections.
"And most importantly… BLOCKED: the inclusion of the SAVE Act to protect our elections from illegal aliens — a top priority for conservatives," Massie said in a long list of reasons he posted to X on why he had voted against the package.
Massie alongside other Republicans like Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., had called for Republicans to tie the SAVE Act into the 2026 funding bill.
He wasn't the only Republican...
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i am sick an tired of these prima donnas messing WITH trump agenda . PRIMARY EVER BLASTED ONE OF THEM
lex
The Trump agenda is not to pass the SAVE act? Nice to know. The SAVE act is not some esoteric thing. It’s mainstream and Trump didn’t lift a finger for it.
These are representatives, not rubber stamps who simply follow his orders. Time he learns to listen.
DHS was already funded for the entire year by the Big Beautiful Bill. These are people who wanted more for their Christmas tree. Supposed conservative stars some of them— don’t believe for one minute how this “bill” was contrived nor the way it is described, as it makes no sense at all.
There is already a killer bill for election reform, which they are slow walking it is said. It’s needed now to codify DJT’s Executive Order and to support the Atlanta seizures which will reveal Deep State involvement in the fraud of 2020 which gave us the criminal Joey Bags Biden.
...ahhh in this instance, you’re out to lunch. The SAVE Act has to be passed and they punted the leverage away... more cheating elections coming. The Washington Generals at work to lose...
21 of my favorite reps, with cajones !
We’ve got the donk bastards on the ropes...let ‘em vote against FEMA, VOTER ID
Agreed.
What a coincidence.... again, enough to pass the bill.
Congress:
Fascist Party: Republicans
Communist Party: Democrats
Trump playing in the sandbox with both.
Hopefully, those 21 run again in November -and win.
My girl Spartz is in there
Good on her
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