Kansas Rep. Sharice Davids on Trump's refusal to sign housing bill: 'This is nonsense'
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From KCUR, this is up to date. I'm producer Hallie Jackson. In a rare bipartisan feat, Republicans and Democrats in Congress overwhelmingly passed the twenty-first century Road to Housing Act this week. It aims to remove barriers to building housing, limit corporate ownership of single family homes, and ultimately lower the cost of housing for both renters and for buyers. But on Wednesday, President Trump canceled his planned signing of the bill and said he wouldn't reschedule it unless senators passed the controversial Save America Act. That completely unrelated bill would impose restrictions on mail in voting, as well as voter. ID laws, and the Senate hasn't come close to reaching the filibuster-proof 60-vote threshold it needs to pass it.
To talk about all of this and more, KCUR's Zach Wilson spoke with Representative Sharice Davids, a Democrat who represents the 3rd District of Kansas in the U.S. House. Let's hear the conversation.
Congresswoman, welcome back to up to date.
Hi, Zach. Good to see you.
Good to see ya. Uh so what was your reaction to the news that the president had decided to not sign this bill?
Um I felt like I needed to go to the gym and hit the bag for a little bit. I'm pretty frustrated about it. I mean Like this is this is you you mentioned it already, but it's been decades since we saw meaningful uh meaningful movement in terms of uh addressing the housing issues that we have. This is the largest housing bill in thirty years that we've seen and it's got bipartisan support this day and age. That should be a a no brainer. But unfortunately we're seeing I mean it the president needs to s this is nonsense. The president needs to sign the bill, uh, so we can get this get this passed into law and and help people who can't who literally can't afford to to pay their bills and are worried about whether or not they're gonna be able to stay in their homes.
What are your colleagues on Capitol Hill saying about this? And have you spoken to people on both sides of the aisle since this happened?
I would say that my colleagues are also frustrated and there's frustration. There's there's frustration on both sides of the aisle when anytime we can come together and get stuff done. Uh Kansas is not the only place that has a housing shortage. Um, but it is it it is v a very serious problem for for families right now. And and both sides of the aisle are are frustrated about this. Um, seeing a bipartisan bill just not not getting taken up because the president is is playing political games is just um this this is exactly the kind of stuff why people uh hate hate politics and and are pissed at Washington all the time.
Yeah, it's it's uh something that's was sort of surprising to see in this political c climate as you're talking about, um where, you know, people have come together uh from both sides of the aisle and you know, found common ground. W uh what was it about housing in particular that allowed the Congress to uh the Congress to uh find common ground when on so many other key issues it's just been so difficult? difficult over the last several years.
Yeah, no, that's a great question. I mean, I think I would say that if you look at this if you look at the the housing crisis that that we're facing. You know, and and Kansas families living paycheck to paycheck folks who aren't sure where where their next um
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