{"id":506,"date":"2026-07-07T04:19:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T04:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanindustryreview.com\/?p=506"},"modified":"2026-07-07T04:19:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T04:19:18","slug":"congress-faces-its-own-summer-heat-dome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanindustryreview.com\/?p=506","title":{"rendered":"Congress faces its own summer heat dome"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The sweltering Fourth of July weekend is over, but for both parties in House and Senate leadership, the heat is still cranked up.<\/p>\n

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Both chambers are likely to return next Monday to the same sweat-inducing tangle of legislative problems that left them stumped as they headed out of town at the end of June.<\/p>\n

Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is looking for a solution so \u201cirresistible\u201d that his fellow Republicans will have to accept it \u2014 but the numbers are working against him.<\/p>\n

For one thing, August is fast approaching, leaving just a couple weeks in Washington before lawmakers depart for an even longer summer break. And as Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., has said all along, mathematical realities can\u2019t be changed in the Senate, even when it comes to the White House-backed voter ID bill dubbed the SAVE America Act.<\/p>\n

Johnson can\u2019t afford to have a repeat of last week, when GOP holdouts in the House ground the floor to a halt, seeking to pressure senators into passing the measure. They voted down a procedural rule to advance a massive fiscal 2027 defense authorization package and the National Security-State spending bill, despite attempts from Johnson to placate them.<\/p>\n

Left with an immobilized floor and a looming holiday weekend, Johnson sent the House home hardly 24 hours after the chamber gaveled in for the week \u2014 not exactly the look he was going for as America prepared to celebrate its 250th birthday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The House breakdown followed a period of similar pandemonium in the Senate last month, which was capped off with President Donald Trump refusing to sign an unrelated housing bill until the Senate clears the voter ID package, even cancelling a high-profile ceremony on Capitol Hill at the last minute. The housing bill will still become law unless Trump chooses to veto it by July 10.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But Thune has said repeatedly that he does not have the 60 votes to advance the sweeping election package to Trump\u2019s desk or the support within his conference to sidestep the filibuster. And that math equation hasn\u2019t changed, though Trump\u2019s supporters online and on the Hill continue to push for other tactics, like trying a \u201ctalking filibuster\u201d in the Senate or relying on the budget reconciliation process to get the job done.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On Sunday, Johnson told Fox News the House would \u201ctry one more time\u201d to pass SAVE via the budget reconciliation route \u2014 although that strategy didn\u2019t work in April, when the Senate voted down attempts to attach certain voter ID provisions to a previous reconciliation bill. There are also concerns the broader election package wouldn\u2019t survive a \u201cByrd bath\u201d scrub.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that will be the way to get it through the Senate, and finally, to the president\u2019s desk. So, that\u2019s forthcoming,\u201d Johnson said, adding that he thought Trump would be willing to scrap his larger ambitions to ban many types of mail-in voting and instead stick to the smaller outlines of the voter ID measure the House already passed. The Senate\u2019s \u201clack of belief\u201d in doing a reconciliation bill, he added, \u201cis based on what they think may be in it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhat we\u2019re planning to do is send over a bill that will be irresistible for any Republican,\u201d he said.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

What\u2019s also irresistible? The siren song of August recess, which beckons lawmakers with the promise of time at home or on the campaign trail. But even that urgency may not be enough to alleviate the pressure trapped under the Capitol dome.<\/p>\n

Not alone in the hot seat<\/h2>\n

Meanwhile, Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., have their own problems.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Instead of watching gleefully as Republican infighting tripped up their colleagues on the other side of the aisle, they had one eye on the Democratic Party\u2019s slide to the left. Last week, democratic socialist Melat Kiros dislodged 15-term Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Colo. The progressive group Justice Democrats and the Democratic Socialists of America backed two candidates who ousted a pair of House members from New York \u2014 Democrats Dan Goldman and Adriano Espaillat \u2014 earlier in June.\u00a0<\/p>\n

At least a dozen other long-established Democrats in safe seats face serious intraparty threats in the coming weeks, including tough primary races for members representing districts in Hawaii, Connecticut, Massachusetts and more.<\/p>\n

The victories could make it more challenging for Schumer and Jeffries to sell more moderate candidates to key swing districts \u2014 especially as Trump and Republicans have latched on to labeling Democrats as \u201ccommunists.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Beyond the midterm elections, a growing political spectrum in the Democratic Party threatens more divisions on tricky issues that leadership is already struggling to straddle, such as Israel\u2019s war against Gaza. And Republicans are ready to make the most of it as the summer drags on.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s becoming a communist party. These are not social \u2018Dumocrats,\u2019 these are hardcore, godless communists,\u201d Trump said earlier in June. \u201cAll communists are godless. They don\u2019t believe in God.\u201d<\/p>\n

Daniela Altimari, Mary Ellen McIntire and John T. Bennett contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n

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