Trump Urges Passage Of Funding Deal As Anna Paulina Luna Threatens Revolt

President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that there can be "NO CHANGES" and urged the House to pass the Senate-approved $1.2 trillion, five-bill funding package immediately to end the three-day partial government shutdown.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., faces a razor-thin one-seat GOP majority after Rep.-elect Christian Menefee (D-Tex.) was sworn in, leaving Johnson little room to withstand defections on a party-line rule vote, lawmakers said.

A cohort of House conservatives led by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., said they would withhold support unless the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act — which requires in-person proof of citizenship for voter registration and adds voter-ID provisions — is attached to the measure.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., called the SAVE Act a "poison pill" and compared it to "Jim Crow-era laws," and he said Senate Democrats would filibuster any bill that includes the measure, Schumer said in a statement.

The House Rules Committee was scheduled to meet Monday evening to consider the funding deal and, if it advances a rule, a procedural vote could occur as early as Tuesday afternoon, officials said, forcing leaders to choose whether to send the package back to the Senate.