Rep. Kevin Kiley, I-Calif., broke with President Donald Trump’s standoff over a bipartisan housing package Sunday, telling “Wake Up America Weekend” on Newsmax that the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act will become law despite Trump’s refusal to sign it until Congress passes the SAVE America Act.

The bill cleared the Senate 85-5 and the House 358-32 last week, but Trump canceled a Capitol signing ceremony on June 24 and tied his signature to the voter-ID measure now stalled in the Senate.

The interview, which aired the same day the Senate left town for a recess running through July 12, exposed a widening divide between Trump and Republican lawmakers eager to claim an affordability win heading into the midterms.

Kiley said the legislation amounted to a rare bipartisan success on the country’s leading economic concern and should not be held hostage to an unrelated fight.

“We have to address affordability head-on, and California has just about the highest housing costs in the country,” he said.

He called the housing measure “a good thing Congress had done in a bipartisan way to tackle the leading issue facing the country,” and predicted it “is going to be signed into law.”

He said he supported the SAVE America Act and described himself as a co-sponsor, but argued that “whatever your view is on these other issues” it should not derail housing relief.

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