U.S. President Donald Trump has announced that he will not sign a bipartisan housing affordability bill, describing it as “a big yawn” and saying he is withholding his signature in protest over the Senate’s failure to pass the SAVE America Act. In a social media post, Trump argued that the Senate was “not capable” of approving the voting legislation, which would require proof of citizenship for voter registration and establish a national voter database.
The housing bill, one of the few major bipartisan measures passed by the deeply divided U.S. Congress, includes provisions to speed up or waive environmental reviews for home construction projects and limit the number of existing single-family homes that large Wall Street investors can own. Trump had previously canceled a scheduled signing ceremony on June 24 in an effort to pressure Republican lawmakers to advance the SAVE America Act, a proposal that has drawn criticism amid his repeated false claims of widespread voter fraud.
Despite Trump’s refusal to sign the legislation, the bill is still expected to become law. Under the U.S. Constitution, once a bill has been approved by both the House of Representatives and the Senate, the president has 10 days to sign or veto it. If no action is taken within that period, the legislation automatically becomes law without the president’s signature.
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