How did Missouri and Kansas politicians vote on housing bill Trump won’t sign?
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- The 21st Century Road to Housing Act becomes law at midnight unless Trump acts.
- The bill passed the Senate 85-5 and the House 358-32 last month.
- Most Missouri and Kansas members voted yes; Reps. Eric Burlison and Bob Onder opposed.
Kansas and Missouri politicians were largely supportive of a substantial piece of legislation on housing, but President Donald Trump is refusing to sign it as he admonishes Congress for failing to pass unrelated legislation.
At midnight the housing bill, hailed as the most substantial legislation on housing in decades, will become law, unless Trump reverses course and signs it sooner or vetoes it. The 21st Century Road to Housing Act was a striking bipartisan win in a legislative body that has been defined by partisan gridlock.
The legislation cuts red tape and speeds up environmental review for housing developments, and limits corporate ownership of single-family homes. It provides redevelopment funding for abandoned buildings and adds renter protections and incentivizes modular housing businesses.
Last month, it passed the Senate on a vote of 85-5 in the Senate and 358-32 in the House. Many of the holdouts in the House, including Rep. Eric Burlison, a Missouri Republican, signed a letter opposing the Senate’s version for only temporarily prohibiting the Federal Reserve Bank from issuing a digital currency.
The version passed by the House permanently reined in the Federal Reserve from creating or issuing a digital currency.
Rep. Mark Alford, a Missouri Republican, called it the “most important piece of legislation dealing with housing that we’ve had in 20 years” in an interview with KCUR.
When Trump cancelled the signing of the bill, Rep. Sharice Davids, a Kansas Democrat, criticized the delay.
“I voted for a bipartisan bill to lower housing costs — and the President still hasn’t signed it,” Davids said on X.
Trump has refused to act on the bill in retaliation against Congress for failing to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, known as the SAVE Act, which would require Americans to prove their citizenship to vote with:
- A birth certificate.
- A U.S. Passport.
- A Consular Report of Birth Abroad.
- A Certificate of Citizenship.
- A Naturalization Certificate.
Citizenship is already a requirement for voting in federal elections, and noncitizen voting is rare, according to The Bipartisan Policy Center. But Trump has maintained that noncitizen voting is a major source of election fraud in his unsubstantiated claims of unfair elections.
“I will not sign the Housing Bill, which has been fully approved by Congress and sent to the White House, in PROTEST over the fact that the United States Senate is not capable of passing THE SAVE AMERICA ACT,” Trump posted on Truth Social, his social media website.
How they voted
A yes vote means the lawmakers voted to pass the housing bill.
Kansas
- Sen. Roger Marshall (R) — Yes
- Sen. Jerry Moran (R) — Yes
- Rep.Tracey Mann (R) — Yes
- Rep. Derek Schmidt (R) — Yes
- Rep. Sharice Davids (D) — Yes
- Rep. Ron Estes (R) — Yes
Missouri
- Sen. Josh Hawley (R) — Yes
- Sen. Eric Schmitt (R) — Yes
- Rep. Wesley Bell (D) — Yes
- Rep. Ann Wagner (R) — Yes
- Rep. Bob Onder (R) — No
- Rep. Mark Alford (R) — Yes
- Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D) — Yes
- Rep. Sam Graves (R) — Yes
- Rep. Eric Burlison (R) — No
- Rep. Jason Smith (R) — Yes
