Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) used a Wednesday lunch with White House officials to warn about the difficulty of getting elements of the SAVE America Act passed through a party-line budget process.

Thune brought up the election integrity measure as GOP senators huddled with White House budget chief Russ Vought and deputy chief of staff James Blair to discuss a $95 billion bill that would also include farm aid and tens of billions in funding for the Pentagon.