Mike Johnson Signals House Will Forge Ahead After GOP Holdouts Threatened Obstruction

House Speaker Mike Johnson told “Sunday Morning Futures” host Maria Bartiromo that the House of Representatives would be returning to Washington, D.C. to continue “good work” on legislation Monday.

Johnson postponed votes Friday after Republican Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna led a group of holdouts who threatened to not allow any legislation to move forward until the Senate passed the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act. Johnson told Bartiromo he told Luna and other “colleagues” that the “good work” Republicans had to do shouldn’t be derailed over Democratic obstruction of the election integrity measure in the Senate.

“I told Anna Paulina Luna and a couple other colleagues— I said, ‘It makes no sense for us to shut down our good work in the House just because Senate Democrats refuse to do the people’s will,’” Johnson told Bartiromo. “We’ve got a lot more to do, we’ve got to keep it going.”