Trump tires to use rare bipartisan bill as blackmail to pass his vote suppression bill
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Well, he’s not wrong to think that the freer and fairer the election, the more likely his party is to get obliterated, in large measure because of his actions:
President Donald Trump abruptly canceled a bill signing for major bipartisan legislation on housing affordability on Wednesday, saying he wouldn’t back the law until Congress passes his elections bill.
“Today’s Housing News Conference and Signing is hereby cancelled until such time as we pass the desperately needed SAVE AMERICA ACT, which I consider to be a National Emergency,” Trump said in a post to Truth Social.
Trump was scheduled to sign the 21st Century ROAD to Housing bill on Wednesday afternoon, which passed both chambers with wide bipartisan support.
Trump announced the cancellation as Speaker Mike Johnson and top House leaders held a news conference touting the bill.
The bill is the product of almost a year of back-and-forth between all four congressional corners and aims to increase affordability by boosting housing supply and home ownership.
The legislation also includes language seeking to limit large institutional investors from dominating the single-family housing market, which was a top priority for Trump and a requirement for his signature on the bill.
The cancellation seemingly caught Republican leaders on the Hill by surprise.
“He decided, and I didn’t announce it, I wanted him to announce it,” Johnson said shortly after Trump posted, “but we’re delaying this. As you know, he has a window of time before he has to sign a bill, and he’s going to use a little bit more of this window of time and we’re going to go through this together.”
Both the House and Senate overwhelmingly passed a final version this week after an agreement quickly came to fruition with key lawmakers last week, with the expectation that the bill would be signed into law Wednesday.
If Trump does not sign the bill into law within 10 days — excluding Sundays — while Congress is in session, it will still become law. Congress also has the power to override a presidential veto.
Obviously the Jim Crow Too Act still doesn’t have anything like 60 votes, so the question is whether he will actually veto this even though Congress included the requested slopulism.