Top House Republicans are plowing forward with plans to vote Tuesday on a roughly $1.2 trillion spending package that punts on full-year funding for the Homeland Security Department after securing support from their right flank on a key procedural vote.
After a meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., said she was satisfied that her key demand — passage of legislation requiring proof of citizenship and photo ID to vote, known as the “SAVE America Act” or SAVE Act for short —would be met in the Senate.
The idea is that Senate GOP leaders will force Democrats into a “standing filibuster,” also known as a talking filibuster, if they want to indefinitely block the measure from coming to the floor. That means Democrats would have to hold the floor continuously rather than under the typical practice of a “silent filibuster,” where the minority can block a bill simply by telegraphing that 60 votes do not exist to advance the measure.
