The US House of Representatives halts business and sends members home early after Republican holdouts block the annual defense bill to press for the SAVE America Act.Fourteen Republicans, including House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, oppose a procedural rule after Representative Anna Paulina Luna and other hardliners seek to attach the voting measure to the National Defense Authorization Act.Speaker
Mike Johnson meets with former President
Donald Trump and urges unity, but clashes with lawmakers such as
Lauren Boebert and
Tom Burchett leave troop pay raises and spending measures stalled.