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A pair of Senate Republicans are pushing their House colleagues to reject a Trump-backed shutdown deal unless it includes funding for Homeland Security and election integrity legislation.

Sens. Rick Scott, R-Fla., and Mike Lee, R-Utah, are calling on House Republicans to push back against the Senate-passed funding package, which includes bills to fund five agencies including the Pentagon, as the partial government shutdown continues.

They argued that the package needs to be overhauled, and should include a modified version of the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility Act, called the SAVE America Act, and a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which was released after Senate Democrats threatened to blow up the government’s funding process.

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Doing so could extend what was expected to be a temporary shutdown.

Scott said Congressional Democrats “WON’T fund DHS” and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). He voted against the package twice, saying that the spending levels would further destroy the national debt that has already taken out 38 billion dollars, and that the billions of marks betrayed the previous vows of the Republicans of sequestration.

“If House Republicans don’t pass the DHS bill, add the SAVE America Act and remove the wasteful signs, Democrats win,” Scott said. “We must protect our country, protect our elections and end abuse NOW!”

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Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, wants House Republicans to push back against the Trump-backed federal funding deal, and demanded it include funding for DHS and a voter ID law. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Lee also rejected the package in the Senate because of earmarks. He also agreed with Scott, and pushed his SAVE America Act, which he introduced with Rep. Chip Roy, R-Tx., to be included.

“To my friends in the House GOP: Please restore DHS funding, and add the SAVE America Act,” Lee wrote on X.

An updated version of the SAVE Act would require people to present photo identification before voting, require proof of citizenship in person when people register to vote and remove non-citizens from voter rolls.

But their demands are at odds with the desire of President Donald Trump, who cut a deal with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, DN.Y., to scrap the DHS bill following the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti during an immigration operation in Minneapolis in order to use the funding fund through the Senate.

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House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., leaves the chamber to speak to reporters after the final vote to end the longest government shutdown in history, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)

And any changes to the deal, such as including the SAVE America Act or adding a DHS bill, would send the package back to the Senate, where Schumer and his caucus could reject it.

That would cause a back-and-forth between rooms that would increase the time it was meant to be temporarily closed.

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Their demands also put House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., in a difficult position, as several House Republicans want to extract approval from congressional Democrats. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., is already leading the charge to include the SAVE Act in the funding package.

Johnson will have to shore up any opposition in his caucus, as House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., made it clear from the floor that any attempt to fast-track the legislation on Monday, when the House returns, will fail.