Trump cancels housing bill signing, demands US voter ID law first
Key takeaways
- The affordable housing bill had been passed by bipartisan support, a rare move in a deeply divided US Congress.
- Trump has said he will join US Senate Republicans at a closed-door lunch on Wednesday afternoon to lobby them to pass the voting measure called the SAVE America Act, his top legislative priority.
- The affordable housing bill was passed by the US House of Representatives on Tuesday in a 358-32 vote, after being passed by the Senate on Monday by a vote of 85-5.
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The affordable housing bill had been passed by bipartisan support, a rare move in a deeply divided US Congress.
xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogle Add Al Jazeera on Googleinfo United States President Donald Trump will join Senate Republicans at a closed-door lunch to lobby them to pass the voter identification measure [File: Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters]By AP and Reuters Published On 24 Jun 202624 Jun 2026United States President Donald Trump has cancelled a planned signing of bipartisan affordable housing legislation in an effort to pressure his fellow Republicans to pass a long-stalled package of US national voting restrictions that has aggravated party fissures and shown the limits of his power.
“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 on Truth Social on Wednesday, referring to a federal bill that requires voters to provide documentary proof of US citizenship and strict photo identification to vote in federal elections.