Stay up to date with notifications from The IndependentNotifications can be managed in browser preferences.Jump to contentThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged inAllNewsSportCultureLifestyleSpeaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) (C) listens as U.S. President Donald Trump (L) speaks during a signing ceremony for the Secure America Act in the Oval Office of the White House on June 10 (Getty)President Donald Trump announced that he would not sign the bipartisan 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, which was intended to address cost-of-living issues. His refusal is a protest against the Senate's failure to pass 'THE SAVE AMERICA ACT,' a bill he champions to restrict postal voting and implement voter ID. The housing legislation will automatically become law at midnight on Friday, as it has been awaiting his signature for nine working days. Trump criticized his own party on Truth Social and demanded the Senate eliminate the 60-vote filibuster threshold to pass his voting bill and other Republican legislation. He has consistently railed against mail-in voting since the 2020 election and previously threatened not to sign any legislation until voting restrictions are enacted. In full‘Title of DUMB’: Trump refuses to sign housing bill and bashes Republicans in spat over voter IDMore bulletinsThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in

President Trump says he is refusing to sign the bill without Congress first passing his sweeping voter ID bill.

The legislation does not have enough support in the Senate to pass.

Donald Trump threw a pointless tantrum over signing the measure.

President Donald Trump has chosen not to sign a sweeping housing affordability bill on Friday, in protest of Congress not approving a strict voter ID bill that does not have…

President demands action on anti-voting bill that has no chance of making it through Senate

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The housing legislation will become US law at midnight with or without President Donald Trump's signature.

Trump’s decision not to sign the bill gave Democrats an opening to criticize him on the issue of affordability: "His priorities couldn’t be clearer."

Trump’s decision not to sign the bill gave Democrats an opening to criticize him on the issue of affordability: "His priorities couldn’t be clearer."

Trump reiterated that he won’t sign the sweeping housing package “in protest” over the fact that Congress hasn’t passed the SAVE America Act.

Trump refuses to sign the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, letting it become law automatically while pressuring the Senate on voter ID legislation.