Speaker Mike Johnson mentioned Thursday that Congress will transmit the bipartisan housing bill to President Donald Trump for his signature after a greater than three-hour lengthy “very productive assembly” on the White Home with the president — however he didn’t say when that may occur.
The speaker’s remark got here a day after Trump abruptly scrapped a signing ceremony for the invoice till Congress passes the SAVE America Act, his signature election and voting reform laws.
“We’re on precisely the identical web page,” Johnson mentioned of himself and the president. “He — he’s — desires to make sure that we cease any blockade within the Home. Congress has work to do, and that is what we will do, and so we’ll be transferring ahead on all of that. We’re transmitting the housing invoice to the White Home.”
Home Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., talks on the telephone on the U.S. Capitol in Washington on June 25, 2026, after assembly with President Donald Trump on the White Home.
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Transmitting the invoice to the White Home would begin a 10-day clock for the president to both signal or veto the invoice; in any other case it could develop into regulation. The invoice handed each the Senate and Home by a veto-proof majority. Johnson has mentioned he expects the president will signal the invoice.
“And also you noticed his Fact publish,” Johnson added. “If you have not, you must, that, you already know the bulk occasion ought to by no means be voting down guidelines. We bought to have the ability to transfer ahead on laws and proceed the America First agenda, and so we’re blissful to do this.”
The Home has been unable to maneuver ahead on sure votes this week as a result of a handful of GOP hardliners have vowed to dam different laws from transferring ahead till the SAVE America Act passes Congress.
Following his assembly with Johnson on the White Home, Trump urged Home Republicans to “unify” and resume voting amid the legislative deadlock that resulted from GOP hardliners vowing to withhold votes.
“Home Republicans ought to unify, and cease voting down “Guidelines” or, threatening to take action,” Trump posted on his social media platform. “Giving energy to the Radical Left Dumocrats within the Home to manage what goes up for a Vote will make our outcomes worse, not higher. No extra grandstanding, please!”
President Donald Trump speaks at a Rose Backyard Membership dinner with farmers on the White Home, Thursday, June 25, 2026, in Washington.
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The president’s message comes regardless of his personal refusal to signal any laws till the SAVE America Act is handed.
The SAVE America Act would make important election and voting reforms, together with requiring picture ID at polling locations and proof of citizenship earlier than an individual may register to vote. It has been rejected by Democrats who say that it could disenfranchise voters with out entry to the required paperwork. Trump has pushed Republicans within the Senate to eradicate or modify the filibuster to get the invoice by, although Majority Chief John Thune has maintained Republicans do not have the votes to take action.
“It is one other day on the workplace,” Johnson mentioned after his assembly with Trump. “You recognize, that is the method in an period with small margins, however we’ll get the job executed. We at all times do.”
The Home is predicted to be in session subsequent week.
