Comprehensive housing legislation won overwhelming bipartisan support in the House on Tuesday, as lawmakers sent President Donald Trump a package both parties hope will help lower costs for what the Bureau of Labor Statistics says is the single largest expense U.S. households face.
The House voted 358-32 to clear the bill under suspension of the rules, which requires two-thirds of members present and voting for passage.
All of the “no” votes were Republicans, as a group of conservatives led by Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, who are pressing for Senate passage of a voter ID bill, voted against the housing bill in protest. Despite the number of Republican opponents more than doubling from votes on previous iterations of the bill, the conservative holdouts couldn’t stop the legislation’s momentum.
The House voted a little more than 24 hours after the Senate passed the final bill Monday night, 85-5. Trump is planning to sign it Wednesday during his trip to the Capitol to meet with Republicans.
The legislation hit the bicameral fast track this week after being stalled for months as the two chambers worked out differences over versions of the bill that each gained wide bipartisan support in previous votes.
