Senate Showdown
Lawmakers are not happy with the president's decision to hold bipartisan housing legislation hostage over the SAVE Act
Congress managed to briefly break its usual gridlock this week when the Senate agreed to pass a bipartisan housing affordability bill. The legislation was expected to have an easy journey through the House of Representatives and to the desk of Donald Trump, who is itching for a legislative win amid a series of embarrassing and unpopular policy blunders.
But just hours before the signing ceremony, Trump abruptly scuttled the first victory his party has had in months, saying he won’t sign the bill until the Senate passes the unpopular, electorally poisonous SAVE Act.
“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 wrote Wednesday afternoon on Truth Social.
