{"id":22776,"date":"2026-05-15T13:32:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T13:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/johnson-house-will-amend-stalled-housing-bill-despite-white-house-senate-gop-pushback\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T13:32:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T13:32:05","slug":"johnson-house-will-amend-stalled-housing-bill-despite-white-house-senate-gop-pushback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/johnson-house-will-amend-stalled-housing-bill-despite-white-house-senate-gop-pushback\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnson: House will amend stalled housing bill despite White House, Senate GOP pushback"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Speaker Mike Johnson said Friday morning he still intends for the House to vote on changes to the Senate\u2019s version of a stalled housing affordability package \u2014 despite intense opposition from White House officials and Senate Republicans.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, I don’t think we have the votes to pass the Senate bill as this, so we’re going to stand by the House product,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n

In doing so, Johnson is defying White House officials and GOP senators who are deeply opposed to his plan to amend the housing bill on the House floor next week and send it back to the Senate. White House officials have told Blue Light News the new bill text unveiled in the House this 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 one White House official said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Johnson was dismissive of that pushback: \u201cI\u2019ve talked to the White House. We’ll get it all straightened out,\u201d he said Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’re focused on producing a housing bill that meets all the objectives,\u201d Johnson continued. \u201cIt’ll be bipartisan, bicameral. It’s great for the American people. So, sometimes the process is messy, but we’ll get there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked if he was still planning to put the bill on the floor next week, Johnson said he was going to discuss \u201ctiming\u201d with his leadership team \u201cthis morning.\u201d House GOP leaders want to bring the bill up through a fast-track process next Wednesday where a two-thirds majority of those present and voting are needed to secure passage.<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump met with Senate Republicans at the White House Monday to discuss cross-chamber disagreements over the housing affordability legislation. During that meeting, Trump called Johnson and put him on speaker phone as the senators present pushed for the House to simply pass their version of the bill and clear it for the president\u2019s signature.<\/p>\n

Trump also pressed the speaker and others to move the bill quickly, the speaker agreed, with both Johnson and the senators concluding the meeting with a sense that each of their divergent plans had been validated, according to three people with knowledge of the conversation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile I was there, [Trump] spoke with the speaker and the speaker said he would try to get the bill moving. And that’s where we are,\u201d said Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), who was part of the group who met with Trump earlier this week.<\/p>\n

Jordain Carney contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Speaker Mike Johnson said Friday morning he still intends for the House to vote on changes to the Senate\u2019s version of a stalled housing affordability package \u2014 despite intense opposition from White House officials and Senate Republicans. \u201cYeah, I don’t think we have the votes to pass the Senate bill as this, so we’re going […]<\/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-22776","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\/22776","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=22776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}