{"id":2537589,"date":"2026-01-15T07:52:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T12:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/key-republican-says-senate-housing-bill-included-too-much-spending-for-house\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T07:56:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T12:56:03","slug":"key-republican-says-senate-housing-bill-included-too-much-spending-for-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/key-republican-says-senate-housing-bill-included-too-much-spending-for-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Republican says Senate housing bill included too much spending for House"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkey-republican-says-senate-housing-bill-included-too-much-spending-for-house%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2537589&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>rep.Mike Flood (R-NE), the top House Republican on housing, said the Senate&#8217;s bipartisan Road to Housing bill contains spending provisions that likely wouldn&#8217;t pass the House, even though there is significant overlap with the House&#8217;s Housing for the 21st Century Act. The House bill, advanced by the Financial Services Commitee (50-1), is narrower to avoid new spending-omitting several Senate ideas such as a Community Growth Block Grant pilot, new grants to reward localities that increase supply, and incentives for transit-adjacent building-while retaining many shared priorities.<\/p>\n<p>Flood and Democratic Rep. Emanuel Cleaver framed the House bill as a bipartisan &#8220;true compromise&#8221; that modernizes local and rural development programs, expands manufactured and affordable housing finance, protects borrowers and assisted families, and strengthens oversight of housing providers. The legislation would also overhaul the HOME investment Partnerships Program to give states and cities more adaptability and ease some federal environmental rules, and it directs HUD to promote &#8220;point-access&#8221; (one-stairwell) multifamily buildings to lower barriers to small-scale housing construction. the White House has been receptive to both bills and may seek to add its own changes as Congress moves toward a full House vote.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Key Republican says Senate housing bill included too much spending for House<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2453967\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>The top House Republican on <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/housing\/\">housing<\/a> said that provisions in the Senate&rsquo;s bipartisan reform legislation wouldn&rsquo;t have passed the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/house\/\">House<\/a> because they involved spending but emphasized that there is much overlap between that bill and the House&rsquo;s new bipartisan measure.<\/p>\n<p>The House Financial Services Committee <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/finance-and-economy\/3924577\/major-bipartisan-bill-to-counter-housing-crisis-advances-in-house\/\">advanced the bill<\/a>, the Housing for the 21st Century Act, in December. The <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> sat down with Rep. Mike Flood (R-NE), the chairman of the housing subcommittee, to discuss the legislation, the process of crafting it, and what&rsquo;s next.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/finance-and-economy\/4419298\/doj-investigation-push-powell-hold-seat-fed\/\">DOJ investigation could push Powell to hold on to his seat at Fed<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/finance-and-economy\/4418898\/trumps-tariffs-not-raising-prices-shrinking-country-manufacturing-workforce\/\">Trump&#8217;s tariffs aren&#8217;t raising prices, but they are shrinking America&#8217;s manufacturing workforce<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/finance-and-economy\/4417436\/producer-prices-rose-november-inflation-lingers\/\">Producer prices rose to 3% through November as inflation lingers<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/4417777\/democrat-challenges-trump-plan-ban-investors-single-family-houses\/\">TOP DEMOCRAT CHALLENGES TRUMP ON BAN OF BIG INVESTORS FROM SINGLE-FAMILY HOUSES<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Currently, the legislation, which Flood characterized as a &ldquo;true compromise&rdquo; between the two parties, is awaiting a full vote in the House. There is also separate bipartisan housing legislation in the Senate, the Road to Housing <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/119th-congress\/senate-bill\/2651\">Act<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Flood said some of the provisions in the Senate version wouldn&rsquo;t be able to receive support in the House because of spending. He said that the House version is narrower, while the Senate version is broader, creating seven new programs and some pilot programs.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Anything that spends money is going to run afoul of what our majority leader and what our committee chairman has charged us with doing,&rdquo; Flood said during an interview in his office on Capitol Hill. &ldquo;And so, not to say they&rsquo;re bad ideas, it&rsquo;s just a budget issue.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Senate version includes a pilot program to incentivize housing development using Community Development Block Grant funding. Also left out of the House version is a new grant program for localities that increase housing supply, and another that would steer more funding to cities that make it easier to build near transit.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Flood said that both bills have been positively received by the White House. He said the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/trump-administration\">Trump administration<\/a> is broadly supportive of recent <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/bipartisanship\">bipartisan<\/a> housing legislation and expressed optimism about efforts to boost&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/housing\">housing<\/a>&nbsp;supply and ease the affordability crisis.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They&rsquo;ve read it provision by provision, I think they largely think a lot of what the House did and the product&rsquo;s really good, it&rsquo;s been vetted,&rdquo; Flood said.<\/p>\n<p>The committee voted 50-1 to move forward with the Housing for the 21st Century Act,&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3915580\/french-hill-bipartisan-housing-bill-supply-affordability\/\">legislation that was first introduced<\/a>&nbsp;by Rep. French Hill (R-AR), the committee&rsquo;s chairman, last month.<\/p>\n<p>Flood emphasized that many of the same themes were reflected in the House bill as were in the Senate bill.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think that what I&rsquo;ve heard from the administration is they see value in both the Senate and the House proposals,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;They love the fact that both are coming to the table. They want to put their own fingerprint on it.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think of all the problems we have this year with all the different issues, this is the one issue that is the most bipartisan,&rdquo; Flood added.<\/p>\n<p>Flood said that a lot of effort was put into the legislation, and that he and Rep.&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3924577\/major-bipartisan-bill-to-counter-housing-crisis-advances-in-house\/\">Emanuel Cleaver<\/a>&nbsp;(D-MO), the ranking member of the Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance,&nbsp;spent a lot of time working together to find common ground.<\/p>\n<p>Cleaver told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> this week that the effort came from both sides of the aisle.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been here 21 years, I think this is what I would really like to claim to be bipartisanship,&rdquo; Cleaver said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It turns out that both of us wanted the same thing in terms of creating opportunities for greater homebuying by our constituents, and maybe also creating an atmosphere where the federal government is actually, with intentionality, increasing the available housing,&rdquo; the congressman said.<\/p>\n<p>At a high level, the Housing for the 21st Century Act is designed to help modernize local development and rural housing programs, further expand opportunities for manufactured and affordable housing finance, and protect borrowers and assisted families. It also enhances oversight of housing providers.<\/p>\n<p>There is a lot of overlap with the Senate bill, House Financial Services Chairman French Hill told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;As much of the overlap of ROAD to Housing priorities of both Democrats and Republicans that we can get to good on in the language would be in there,&rdquo; Hill said. &ldquo;Meaning they have some provisions inside ROAD as attached to the&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/ndaa\/\">NDAA<\/a>&nbsp;that if we change some of the wording, but not gut the initiative, we could get to good on &mdash; even if we don&rsquo;t think it&rsquo;s the best idea on the planet.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>One significantly different measure in the House bill is a provision that would overhaul the HOME Investment Partnerships Program, a major housing program administered by the&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/department-of-housing-and-urban-development\/\">Department of Housing and Urban Development<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Flood and Cleaver say it would modernize and strengthen the program, which provides about $1.25 billion a year in block grants to states and cities to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bad-politics-the-swamps-earmark-tab-is-already-about-21-billion\/\" title=\"\u2018Bad Politics\u2019: The Swamp\u2019s Earmark Tab Is Already About  ...ion\">provide affordable housing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maricopa-county-under-fire-for-hiring-more-democrat-poll-workers-than-republicans-despite-legal-obligation-for-equal-representation\/\" title=\"Maricopa County Under Fire for Hiring More Democrat Poll Workers Than ...ublicans Despite Legal Obligation for Equal ...resentation\">provide greater flexibility<\/a> for governments in allocating funding under the program, which was created in 1990 as part of a broader shift in housing policy toward giving more responsibility to states and cities. It would also provide relief from federal environmental rules that slow down projects.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/finance-and-economy\/4414982\/gop-chairman-french-hill-defends-jerome-powell-break-from-trump\/\">GOP&nbsp;CHAIRMAN&nbsp;ISSUES DEFENSE OF POWELL IN BREAK WITH TRUMP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Housing for the 21st Century Act would also direct HUD to promote &ldquo;point-access block&rdquo; buildings, meaning buildings accessible by just one stairwell &mdash; a reform sought by many urbanists.<\/p>\n<p>Such buildings are popular in many parts of the world, and some U.S. neighborhoods, but are effectively prohibited throughout much of the country because of model building codes that most cities use. Generally, apartment buildings in the U.S. are required to have two stairwells for egress in case of fire, which some designers have blamed for forcing awkward construction choices and making it harder to <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >build small-scale multifamily properties<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top GOP: Senate housing bill spends too much<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3360,"featured_media":2537590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AP25078169431933.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[32455,32671,3911,70990,70991],"class_list":["post-2537589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-house-gop","tag-housing-policy","tag-republican","tag-senate-housing-bill","tag-spending-dispute"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AP25078169431933.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2537589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2537589"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2537589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2537597,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2537589\/revisions\/2537597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2537590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2537589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2537589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2537589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}