After the United States Senate voted on Wednesday to go on a 19-day recess instead of voting on the SAVE America Act, the House Freedom Caucus declared that the House of Representatives should not act on Senate legislation until the voter ID legislation is passed. “There should be no more legislation until the Senate is back in session,” Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., said at a Thursday morning press conference. “The only question right now is whether the Senate will put America first or the Senate first,” Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, said. “I am a creature of the Senate, as former chief of staff to Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, I understand the Senate better than most.” “The Senate must stop hiding behind these fake rules and norms,” he added. Rep. Diana Harshbarger, R-Tenn., scolded the Senate, saying she “doesn’t care about your reelection efforts.” “I don’t care about your fundraising efforts. Do the job the American people elected you to do,” Harshbarger added. Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., agreed with Harshbarger and Roy, adding, “The Senate sucks, the Senate just sucks.” On Tuesday, Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, posted on social media a list of reasons why invoking the talking filibuster is a bad idea. One of the ideas listed was that invoking the talking filibuster would prevent senators from fundraising and spending time away from Washington, D.C., the city they were elected to serve in. There is not single instance in the history of the United States Senate where a “talking filibuster“ has resulted in a favorable outcome for the proponent. Furthermore, here are some very important priorities we would be precluded from from considering => pic.twitter.com/ZJE7NgrMSn— Senator John Cornyn (@JohnCornyn) June 25, 2026 “I think it’s important to [President Donald Trump] because of how important it is to American citizens,” Rep. Eli Crane, R-Ariz., added. Crane raised a national security concern, adding that if the SAVE America Act does not become law, the United States could very well be infiltrated by its enemies from within. “If you are a dictator around the world, all you would have to do is slip 5, 10, 15,000 people to vote, and you can easily flip a state. Rep. Keith Self, R-Texas, filed a bill on Thursday to repeal the 17th Amendment, which, if enacted, would return the power to elect senators to the state legislatures. “This is the most important bill Congress could pass in a decade,” Self added. “I have spent most of my life in uniform fighting the cultures we have mass imported in recent years.” “This is embarrassing. It is America 250, that is even more reason to stay here and do their job,” Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., said during the conference. “The notion that women won’t be able to vote is BS. I am a woman, I went through a name change, and I can still vote,” Boebert added. “The only reason the Democrat Party wants to shut down this bill is because they want to cheat.” “Americans, they are watching a communist takeover, they are watching Sharia law be implemented across the country,” Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., stated. After a Republican Senate luncheon on Wednesday, Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., told the Daily Signal that he invited the president to attend in order to unify the party behind the SAVE America Act. “I mean, what I did was create a venue for people who have a conversation,” Scott said. “I think, you know, we’ll continue to talk to the conference and see what we want.” During the meeting, Scott outlined the different pathways to move the legislation out of the Senate. “We can do the talking filibuster and see if we can get the 60 votes, get through the filibuster, and it only takes 51 votes, or we can try it, like what I sent in my letter,” Scott told the Daily Signal and other reporters as he walked back to his office from the meeting room. “Or third, we can look at what we can do through carrots and sticks with regard to the reconciliation package,” Scott added. However, Roy responded to the senator’s remarks, saying that “we are not interested in a watered-down version.”