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Vance cancels appearance in front of House Republicans as blockade threatens GOP agenda

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Vice President JD Vance is no longer attending the House Republican Conference meeting on Tuesday morning, an appearance that was expected to come as House GOP leadership tries to tamp down a conservative revolt on the floor.

The vice president had to cancel his appearance in front of the GOP conference due to a “scheduling conflict,” a source familiar told the Washington Examiner. Vance, who was invited by House Republican Chairwoman Lisa McClain (R-MI), would have addressed the conference ahead of a scheduled procedural rule vote that is facing another failure on the House floor.

Republican leadership has been forced to scrap votes two weeks in a row due to a conservative blockade amid threats from GOP hard-liners to paralyze the chamber until the Senate passes the SAVE America Act and codifies President Donald Trump’s border policies.

Last month, 13 GOP rebels blocked legislation from coming to the floor unless Johnson caved to their demands, which include attaching the SAVE America Act to the must-pass National Defense Authorization Act. Given the slim Republican majority, Johnson can only afford to lose three GOP votes on any measure before having to rely on Democrats.

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) is leading the faction demanding passage of the SAVE America Act, which requires voter ID to cast a ballot and proof of citizenship to register to vote nationwide. The House previously passed the measure, but it’s stalled in the Senate because of insufficient support to break the chamber’s 60-vote filibuster threshold.

Another problem for House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is a faction of GOP hard-liners upset that leadership did not schedule a promised vote on an immigration bill passed last Congress that would limit asylum and parole before the July 4 recess.

Johnson is hoping to persuade the GOP holdouts to reopen the House floor this week, with leadership including a measure to make daylight saving time permanent, a top priority for Florida Republicans, as a pot sweetener for Luna in this week’s procedural rule that will be voted on Tuesday.

The House Rules Committee also passed, as part of the procedural measure, language that allows the SAVE America Act to be merged with the National Security and State appropriations bill upon passage in the House.

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But whether the olive branches extended by leadership will be enough to assuage conservative hard-liners, without direct White House pressure, remains to be seen.

“Making Daylight Saving Time permanent won’t matter at all if we don’t have election integrity,” Rep. Keith Self (R-TX) wrote in a post on X. “Priorities.”

The Washington Examiner has reached out to the White House for comment.

Naomi Lim contributed to this report.

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