President Donald Trump on Friday erupted at members of his own party on social media as he declared his refusal to sign the bipartisan housing bill that had been intended as a centerpiece of Republican efforts to address cost of living issues over the Senate’s refusal to restrict postal balloting.Because the legislation has been awaiting his signature for nine working days, it will become law at midnight on Friday over his objections unless he formally vetoes the legislation and returns it to Congress, but the president nonetheless complained that Congress had not taken action to make it more difficult for Americans to vote ahead of this year’s midterms.Writing on Truth Social, Trump said he would not sign the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act “in PROTEST over the fact that the United States Senate is not capable of passing THE SAVE AMERICA ACT, which is polling at 97% with the Republican Party, and very high with the non-politician Dumocrats.”He described the anti-postal-voting and voter ID bill he has been unsuccessfully championing for much of his second term as one that would result in “NO MORE CROOKED, CORRUPT, & DESTABILIZING MAIL-IN BALLOTS” and called the lack of action on the bill “crazy and a serious threat to any politician who votes against it.”A version of the partisan legislation has passed the House but does not have enough support in the Senate to make it past the upper chamber’s filibuster threshold of 60 votes, and even then it’s unclear whether a majority of senators support the bill.Trump has spent months obsessing over the voting restriction legislation and his complaints that it has not been sent to him by Congress have grown louder as his standing in the polls has fallen with the November midterm elections looming.He continued his rant by demanding once again that senators end the chamber’s 60-vote threshold for most legislation to “and every other Bill that true Republicans have ever dreamt of” while claiming that Democrats would do the same if they are able to retake control of Washington. “The Dumocrats will TERMINATE THE FILIBUSTER, if and when they ever get the chance to do so, in their very first hour - And I will no longer be able to call them Dumocrats again! The title of DUMB will revert to the Republicans who allowed this horrible calamity to happen to our Party, and our Nation, itself,” he said.More follows...
Trump refuses to sign housing bill and bashes his own party
President demands action on anti-voting bill that has no chance of making it through Senate













