(The Center Square) – A group of Republican hardliners in the U.S. House finally lifted its blockade of the floor, allowing a critical national security funding bill to advance Tuesday.
The band, led by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., has demanded for weeks that House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., somehow force the Senate to pass Republicans’ SAVE America Act by attaching it to must-pass bills like the National Defense Authorization Act.
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