{"id":22713,"date":"2026-05-14T20:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T20:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/white-house-senate-skeptical-about-houses-amended-housing-bill\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T20:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T20:02:11","slug":"white-house-senate-skeptical-about-houses-amended-housing-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/white-house-senate-skeptical-about-houses-amended-housing-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"White House, Senate skeptical about House\u2019s amended housing bill"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The White House on Thursday warned that the House\u2019s amended bipartisan housing bill lawmakers plan to vote on next week may contain \u201cserious policy concerns or implementation challenges.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe bill is under review. New provisions were added before the administration had a chance to review or provide technical assistance,\u201d a White House official said in a statement to Blue Light News.<\/p>\n

The House\u2019s bill, released late Wednesday<\/a>, is an amended version of the Senate-passed housing affordability legislation that received 89 votes in the upper chamber in March and earned the endorsement of the White House. Both bills broadly aim to increase housing supply and homeownership and have become a key policy goal for both parties going into a midterm election season dominated by affordability concerns.<\/p>\n

Senate Majority Leader John Thune<\/a> said Thursday that the clearest path to getting legislation to the president\u2019s desk is for the House to pass the Senate\u2019s bill. He said the Senate language \u201cwas carefully constructed to get at what the president wanted to address.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve done what we can do \u2014 it\u2019s in the court of the House,\u201d Thune said to reporters.<\/p>\n

Senate Banking Chair Tim Scott<\/a> and ranking member Elizabeth Warren<\/a>, architects of the Senate-passed package, on Thursday continued to urge the House to vote on the legislation as-is.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe president of the United States has said he supports the Senate bill<\/a>,\u201d the Massachusetts Democrat told reporters. \u201cWe could make this law and go forward. Enough delay, let\u2019s get this bill on through.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAs Chairman Scott has said many times, it is time for the House to support President Trump and pass the 21st Century Road to Housing Act unamended,\u201d said Jeff Naft, a spokesperson for the South Carolina Republican.<\/p>\n

The lower-chamber\u2019s version of the housing bill is expected to receive enough bipartisan support in the House to pass next week under an expedited process, addresses industry concerns<\/a> and still keeps the Senate\u2019s version \u201cintact,\u201d a GOP House Financial Services Committee aide said during a call with reporters Thursday.<\/p>\n

House Financial Services Chair French Hill<\/a> (R-Ark.) and ranking member Maxine Waters<\/a> reached an agreement on changes, according to both the aide and Herline Mathieu, a spokesperson for the California Democrat.<\/p>\n

There were concerns that the Senate\u2019s language limiting so-called institutional investors<\/a> in the housing market could curtail investment in the housing industry. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle were especially concerned<\/a> with a provision that would require single-family homes built as long-term rentals be sold to individual homebuyers within seven years.<\/p>\n

Hill said the House bill addresses concerns from hundreds of lawmakers and stakeholders.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis bipartisan amendment reflects that feedback,\u201d the Arkansas Republican said in a statement Thursday. \u201cIt cuts unnecessary barriers to new home construction, modernizes [Housing and Urban Development] programs, and allows banks to more freely deploy funding into their communities. We must get this right \u2013 and I am committed to working hard to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jordain Carney and Jasper Goodman contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The White House on Thursday warned that the House\u2019s amended bipartisan housing bill lawmakers plan to vote on next week may contain \u201cserious policy concerns or implementation challenges.\u201d \u201cThe bill is under review. New provisions were added before the administration had a chance to review or provide technical assistance,\u201d a White House official said in […]<\/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-22713","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\/22713","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=22713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}