{"id":19917,"date":"2026-03-12T12:17:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T12:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/capitol-agenda-house-revolt-ahead-for-housing-bill\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T12:17:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T12:17:18","slug":"capitol-agenda-house-revolt-ahead-for-housing-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/capitol-agenda-house-revolt-ahead-for-housing-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitol agenda: House revolt ahead for housing bill"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Senate is on track to easily pass a housing affordability package Thursday that is dead in the House as is \u2014 an ominous sign for any GOP affordability measures.<\/p>\n

The bipartisan package, aimed at lowering high housing costs, is expected to sail through the Senate after an 89-9-1 procedural vote<\/a> earlier this week. But the bill\u2019s ultimate fate remains dire \u2014 as does the GOP trifecta\u2019s ability to make any legislative progress on affordability before the midterms.<\/p>\n

\u2014 House issues:\u00a0<\/b>Freedom Caucus members warned they won\u2019t support the Senate version of the bill, with several likening some of its provisions to \u201csocialism.\u201d Their key concerns include a temporary ban on a central bank digital currency (they want it to be permanent) and a ban on institutional investors from owning single-family homes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are problems,\u201d Chair Andy Harris (R-Md.) said. \u201cIt\u2019s not as conservative a product as the House bill was.\u201d The House passed its own version in February<\/a> under a fast-tracked process with Democratic support.<\/p>\n

Speaker Mike Johnson acknowledged conservative objections to the Senate\u2019s housing bill during a closed-door, conference-wide meeting Wednesday at the House GOP retreat. He suggested the House and Senate would have to go into conference negotiations<\/a> to iron out the problems, according to four people in the room.<\/p>\n

Rep. Mike Flood, chair of the Financial Services Housing and Insurance Subcommittee, echoed that sentiment.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am holding out hope for some fixes, but time runs short,\u201d the Nebraska Republican told Blue Light News in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u2014<\/b> The Senate’s game plan: <\/b>Senators are moving ahead with their version \u2014 and largely ignoring the House-passed one.<\/p>\n

Many don\u2019t support the community banking provisions in the House version. The Senate version also includes the institutional investor provision that President Donald Trump requested.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think we\u2019ll need a conference. I think we\u2019ll get it worked out,\u201d Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) said.<\/p>\n

For now, senators appear to believe the White House \u2014 including the president \u2014 will help get House GOP colleagues on board. To their credit, they\u2019ve seen this movie many times before<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf one side, Senate or House is being unreasonable, the White House may have to slap a couple of people to Pluto,\u201d Kennedy said. \u201cBut we\u2019re not there yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Senate is on track to easily pass a housing affordability package Thursday that is dead in the House as is \u2014 an ominous sign for any GOP affordability measures. The bipartisan package, aimed at lowering high housing costs, is expected to sail through the Senate after an 89-9-1 procedural vote earlier this week. But […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}