House Speaker Mike Johnson said Sunday that House Republicans are preparing another effort to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, expressing confidence that attaching the legislation to a budget reconciliation package will give it its best chance of becoming law. Johnson said both he and President Donald Trump consider the measure a top legislative priority.

Appearing on “Fox News Sunday,” Johnson explained that lawmakers were dismissed to spend the Independence Day holiday in their home districts before returning to focus on the election-integrity legislation.

“I just decided it was best to send everybody home to go celebrate July 4th in their districts. We’ll come back, get everybody together. The big urgency is to get SAVE America passed. The president has that as a top priority, and so do I. We passed it three times in the House. We’re going to try one more time on a budget reconciliation bill, and I think that will be the way to get it through the Senate, and finally, to the president’s desk so that is forthcoming.”

Johnson also discussed additional election reforms that President Trump would like to pursue, while acknowledging that some proposals may face greater obstacles than the SAVE Act.

“He would like to add, the prohibition of mail in ballots, except for exceptions, like if somebody is deployed overseas or they’re ill or can’t get to the polling place. But he understands that one is a bigger reach. If we can get proof of citizenship and photo ID to vote, that eliminates so much of the problem, all the fraud and everything that everybody’s concerned about in our elections, particularly, frankly, in these blue states. Look, California, they’re still counting ballots from an election that happened a month ago. It’s crazy, and everybody understands it.”