U.S. President Donald Trump sits in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 26, 2026.
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President Donald Trump on Friday said he will not sign a bipartisan housing bill that Congress passed last month, in protest of Republicans’ failure to pass a controversial election measure.
But the housing affordability bill, dubbed the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, is nevertheless set to become law automatically on Saturday — unless Trump vetoes it.
The White House, when asked if Trump would veto the bill, referred CNBC to the president’s Truth Social post saying he would not sign it.
Trump has pushed his GOP allies to make the election bill, called the SAVE America Act, their top legislative priority before the November midterms, when Democrats hope to retake at least one chamber of Congress. The bill purports to cut down on non-citizens voting in U.S. elections, even though that is already federally illegal and happens rarely, among other provisions.
Trump has previously suggested he will refuse to sign other bills until the election legislation becomes law, and last month abruptly canceled a scheduled signing ceremony for the housing bill on those grounds.
In his Truth Social post, Trump wrote, “I will not sign the Housing Bill, which has been fully approved by Congress and sent to the White House, in PROTEST over the fact that the United States Senate is not capable of passing THE SAVE AMERICA ACT.”
“THE SAVE AMERICA ACT’S non-passage is CRAZY, and a serious threat to any politician who votes against it!” Trump wrote. He also claimed that the bill has broad support from Americans, despite polls that have shown otherwise.
The president also repeated his demand for Republicans to eliminate the Senate filibuster rules — which require 60 votes to pass most legislation instead of a 51-vote majority — in order to pass the election bill and other GOP priorities.
The Senate’s Republican leaders, who have long defended the filibuster, have so far rebuffed Trump’s demands to ditch the procedural rules. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., last month said Republicans do not currently have the votes to eliminate the filibuster and ram through the SAVE America Act.
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