Johnson to send housing bill to Trump on Monday

Administration Johnson to send housing bill to Trump on Monday Comments: by Ashleigh Fields - 06/28/26 2:34 PM ET Comments: Link copied by Ashleigh Fields - 06/28/26 2:34 PM ET Comments: Link copied

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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Sunday said he will send the bipartisan housing bill passed overwhelmingly by both chambers of Congress to President Trump on Monday.

Trump last week said he would not sign the bill, despite the support from both parties, unless the Senate first takes action on elections legislation that is opposed by Democrats.

Johnson has been trying to figure out a way to move the elections legislation through Congress, and expressed confidence the housing measure will become law.

“I’m going to send the bill over to him on Monday, and it will become law,”Johnson said during an appearance on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.”

“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,” he added.

The bill is set to restrict large investors from buying up single family homes and establishes pilot programs to expand access to small-dollar mortgages (under $100,000) in addition to improving fairness within the appraisal industry.

The bipartisan legislation passed in a 385-32 vote count on Tuesday and Trump signaled his intent to sign the bill in Statutory Hall the following day.

However, at the last minute he cancelled the signing and urged lawmakers to pass the SAVE America Act, which would require photo ID and proof of citizenship to vote.

“Today’s Housing News Conference and Signing is hereby cancelled until such time as we pass the desperately needed SAVE AMERICA ACT, which I consider to be a National Emergency,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.

The White House did not respond to requests for comment on the matter.

A bill can become federal law without the president’s signature in two ways. Congress can override a presidential veto by a two-thirds vote in both chambers, or the president can simply take no action for ten days while Congress stays in session, at which point the bill becomes law automatically, per the Constitution.

Democrats have largely rejected the SAVE America Act and the president’s push to attach its passage to other pieces of legislation.

Johnson has urged Trump to consider passing the bill that would overhaul federal election requirements through a third reconciliation package.

“The only path, I think, to get that done, because you’re never going to get seven Democrats to join 53 Republicans in the Senate to do that. They will not do it. Chuck Schumer will never vote for that or release any Democrat to do it. You have to put it on a reconciliation bill,” Johnson said on Wednesday.

“I talked the president through that in detail this morning, as I have in the past, and he said, ‘Can we do it?’ I said, ‘We can, if the Republicans will stand together.’ We’re on the line right now to defend it. So that’s what we’re going to do,” Johnson said.

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