Trump presses House GOP to back SAVE Act in $95B budget push
What's next: Speaker Mike Johnson is trying to move the measure through reconciliation, bypassing the need for Democratic votes in the Senate.
President Donald Trump urged House Republicans to unite behind a budget framework that would carry parts of the SAVE America Act and roughly $95 billion in new spending through 2036. Speaker Mike Johnson is using the budget reconciliation process to advance the package, a strategy designed to avoid the Senate's 60-vote threshold and move it without Democratic support. The plan includes about $73 billion for national security as fighting between the United States and Iran continues. Some fiscal conservatives are resisting the bill, objecting to the lack of spending cuts and the absence of language to defund Planned Parenthood. Lawmakers would still need to write the detailed spending measures in committee before assembling a final package.