The New Republic72%
Mike Johnson Accidentally Tanks Defense Budget Bill Over SAVE Act 57%
By Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling62%
6/30/2026, 1:05:00 PM
Topics: US Politics, US Congress
BS Summary: This article contains 17 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Politically Left Leaning Bias, and Post Hoc (False Cause), with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 70.5% saturation with 232 hits. Analysis detected 1,079 faulty-reasoning hits from 329 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 54% and a BS Rank of 57% (9,488 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 56.70% of the article peer group.
A procedural vote on the National Defense Authorization Act failed to pass the House Tuesday, in no small part because the SAVE America Act was attached to it.
The lower chamber voted 198–224 to reject the rule, with 14 Republicans joining Democrats to oppose the last-minute addition of Donald Trump’s voter restriction bill to the proposed Pentagon budget.
Representatives Tim Burchett, Eric Burlison, Eli Crane, Randy Fine, Andy Harris, Anna Paulina Luna, Max Miller, Chip Roy, Keith Self, Victoria Spartz, Mike Turner, Thomas Massie, and Lauren Boebert all voted “no.”
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise switched his vote, as well, but only so that Republicans could readdress the matter in future.
The stalled NDAA vote is a major blow to leaders of both parties, who have historically passed the defense spending package with minimal partisan objections.
But the wide rejection also illustrates the low level of support behind the SAVE America Act, despite repeated insistence from the White House that it needs to be turned into law.
Since Trump lost the 2020 election, he and his allies have amped up their base over contrived claims of voter fraud, a statistical nonissue in U.S. elections.
Trump has worked overtime to force his unpopular election reform proposals through the legislature, throwing confirmation hearings and bipartisan bill signings to the wayside while demanding Republicans prioritize passing the SAVE America Act.
The backlash to the bill—which was introduced months ago—has been grave, so much so that it gummed up efforts to fund Homeland Security for several months.
Republicans eventually had to bail on the package to end the congressional gridlock.
Trump has nonetheless opted to make it a legislative priority once again, effectively paralyzing the House for another week.
House Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters Tuesday that the lower chamber would work on the matter for another day and a half and try to hold another vote by the end of the week.
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