Trump won’t sign housing bill, in SAVE America Act protest
President Donald Trump said Friday that he will not sign the housing bill that Congress passed with overwhelming bipartisan support in June, paving the way for the bill to automatically become law at midnight ET.
Trump said he withheld his signature on the housing bill in protest of the Senate’s failure to pass controversial election security legislation known as the SAVE America Act.
The president has not said he would veto the housing bill, which aims to lower costs for homebuyers and rein in institutional investors.
And the Constitution says that if the president does not veto a bill within 10 days, excluding Sundays, of receiving it, the bill “becomes a law” as if he had signed it.
When asked if Trump would veto the bill, the White House said he would not sign it, directing CNBC to the president’s Truth Social post.
The bill, officially known as THE ROAD TO A 21ST CENTURY HOUSING CODEIt was approved by a vote of 358 to 32 in the House of Representatives and 85 to 5 in the Senate.
Those margins are well above the two-thirds supermajority vote needed to override a presidential veto.
in it Real Social post“I will not sign the Housing Bill, which has been fully approved by Congress and sent to the White House, in protest of the fact that the United States Senate cannot pass the RELIEF ACT FOR AMERICA,” Trump wrote.
“Not passing the SAVE AMERICA ACT is INSANE and a serious threat to any politician who votes against it!” Trump wrote.
He also claimed that the bill had broad support from Americans. surveys They showed the opposite.
Trump’s announcement came a day after the National Association of Realtors reported that home prices last month rose to the highest level in history.
According to the association’s report, the average price of an existing home sold in June was $440,600, up 1.8% from the previous year.
Democrats attacked Trump’s statement, saying it proved he was indifferent to Americans’ concerns about the cost of living.
“Millions of Americans are crushed by housing costs,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, DY said. wrote to x.
“Donald Trump called their crisis a ‘big yawn’ and then refused to sign the most important bipartisan housing bill in decades.” Schumer wrote, referencing the president’s previous description of the bill.
“His priorities couldn’t be clearer: higher costs for families and more power for himself.”
Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo., on his own X “The rising costs of mortgages and rents are hitting Americans hard. But Trump refuses to act,” his post read.
Before the midterm elections in November, Trump pushed his fellow Republicans in Congress to make the RELIEVE America Act their top priority.
Democrats, who have centered their political message around affordability ahead of the midterm elections, hope to regain control of both houses of Congress in these contests.
Trump has previously suggested he would refuse to sign other bills until the Save America Act is passed. Citing this demand, he abruptly canceled the signing ceremony for the housing bill planned for June.
The SAVE America Act aims to reduce the chances of non-citizens voting in US elections. The bill would require voters to show photo identification to vote and proof of citizenship to register for elections.
It is already illegal for non-citizens to vote in federal elections. And it’s extraordinarily rare for noncitizens to vote, research He found it.
In Friday’s Truth Social post, Trump demanded Senate Republicans eliminate filibuster rules to pass the election bill and other GOP priorities.
The rules require most legislation to pass a procedural threshold of 60 votes, rather than a simple majority of 51 votes if all 100 senators are present.
