House Speaker Mike Johnson said he plans to send President Donald Trump a bipartisan housing bill Monday.
The legislation, the 21st Century ROAD To Housing Act, is the product of almost a year of back-and-forth between all four congressional corners and aims to increase affordability by boosting housing supply and home ownership; it passed both chambers of Congress with wide bipartisan support.
Johnson said to host Maria Bartiromo, "I'm going to send the bill over to him on Monday, and it will become law. I certainly want him to take the biggest, boldest marker that he has and do that big Trump signature proudly on that legislation because we're delivering for the people, and that's what he wants to do."
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Johnson's remarks.
Trump was scheduled to sign the bill into law last week but canceled the ceremony "until such time as we pass the desperately needed SAVE AMERICA ACT, which I consider to be a National Emergency," the report said. Trump’s SAVE America Act would require voters to present a photo ID at the ballot box and effectively end mail-in voting, and Trump has also said he would like the bill to include prohibitions on transgender athletes competing; Republican leaders have repeatedly indicated the legislation does not have enough votes to pass.
Johnson said he and the president have since met in the Oval Office to discuss the housing bill "in great detail," and said, "We made a lot of promises to the voters, and we're fulfilling those every single day of this Congress. This is a big part of that because this will increase the availability, the access to more housing, bring down cost, cut regulations, do the things we know are very important for that market. The president and I talked about that at length. Of course he wants to do those things."
But if Trump does not sign the housing bill into law within the next few days, it would still become law unless he were to veto it, and Congress also has the power to override a presidential veto.