Speaker Mike Johnson mentioned Thursday that Congress will transmit the bipartisan housing invoice 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’ll do, and so we’ll be shifting ahead on all of that. We’re transmitting the housing invoice to the White Home.”
Home Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., talks on the cellphone 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 will turn into legislation. 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 put up,” Johnson added. “If you have not, you need to, that, you realize the bulk get together ought to by no means be voting down guidelines. We acquired 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 shifting 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 vital election and voting reforms, together with requiring picture ID at polling locations and proof of citizenship earlier than an individual might register to vote. It has been rejected by Democrats who say that it will disenfranchise voters with out entry to the required paperwork. Trump has pushed Republicans within the Senate to get rid of or modify the filibuster to get the invoice via, although Majority Chief John Thune has maintained Republicans haven’t got the votes to take action.
“It is one other day on the workplace,” Johnson mentioned after his assembly with Trump. “You realize, that is the method in an period with small margins, however we’ll get the job executed. We all the time do.”
The Home is anticipated to be in session subsequent week.
