Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Sunday said the House will attempt to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act "one more time" through a budget reconciliation bill.
"The president has that as a top priority, and so do I," Johnson told Fox News's Shannon Bream in an interview on Sunday. "We passed it three times in the House. We're going to try one more time on a budget reconciliation bill, and I think that will be the way to get it through the Senate, and finally, to the president's desk."
Johnson defended the House version of the SAVE America Act as the "backbone" of what President Trump is pushing for to pass the Senate.
He said that although a prohibition on mail-in voting with exceptions and other requests made by Trump could be included, the "bigger reach" is to hone the bill to focus on providing proof of citizenship when registering to vote and the presentation of photo ID before casting a ballot — the core components of the bill.
"That eliminates the problem, all the fraud and everything that everybody's concerned about in our elections, particularly, frankly, in these blue states," Johnson said.