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#Congress passed significant piece of #housing #legislation, in rare #bipartisan feat.

The bill’s passage, by a lopsided 358-to-32 vote, ended months of sparring between the #House & #Senate over a sprawling measure that aims to tackle the housing crisis by boosting supply in a country facing an acute shortage of new homes. The Senate passed its version of the same bill Monday, by a vote of 85 to 5.

Former #slumlord #Trump is expected to sign the bill into #law.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/us/politics/congress-housing-bill.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Congress Clears Housing Bill, Cementing a Rare Bipartisan Feat

A lopsided House vote cleared the measure for President Trump’s signature after a lengthy back and forth and several nearly fatal blows to the legislation.

The New York Times

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Nonilex 1d ago

And just like that … #extortion in the #MafiaState

#Trump posted that he would no longer be signing the bipartisan #housing #legislation.

The bill was supposed to have been signed at the Capitol, but Trump now says he wants #Congress to first pass his #VoterSuppression bill.

“Today’s Housing News Conference & 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 wrote.

#law
https://apnews.com/article/trump-capitol-republican-senators-968c1454ede461d2db413790670c07df

Trump holds tense GOP meeting at Capitol after scrapping bill signing

President Donald Trump has berated Senate Republicans during his visit to the Capitol for allowing a vote to block his war in Iran, further escalating a feud that has diverted GOP efforts to focus on election-year affordability issues and brought much of the chamber’s business to a halt. Trump had signaled ahead of time that he would use the closed-door meeting to push senators to pass his proof-of-citizenship voting bill. But the conversation was more focused on Tuesday’s vote to approve the war powers resolution, a mostly symbolic measure that allows Congress to rebuke the administration’s military actions.

AP News

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Nonilex 1d ago

#Trump has been pushing the #Senate to remove the #filibuster in order to pass the “SAVE America Act” because he doesn’t even have enough Republican votes for it to pass. It would introduce new voter #identification requirements.

The measure as written constitutes #VoterSuppression.

#law #USpol #POTUS #MafiaState #extortion

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Nonilex 1d ago

Fun work around of an incompetent president, even though #Trump has said he would not sign the #housing bill, it can still become #law WITHOUT his signature. If #Congress is in session, #legislation can generally become law 10 days after a bill is enrolled & presented to the president.

Oooh I kind of want it to go like this just to show him he’s unnecessary.

#USpol #POTUS #MafiaState #extortion

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Nonilex 1d ago

#AffordableHousing leaders were apoplectic at the news that the #housing bill signing would not go ahead on Wednesday. Some had received invitations to the bill signing late last night and were en route to the Capitol when they learned that #Trump had canceled the event.

#law #USpol #POTUS #MafiaState #extortion

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Nonilex 1d ago

#House Democratic leaders on Wednesday described #Trump’s decision to cancel the signing ceremony for the bipartisan #housing bill as erratic behavior #unfit for a president.

“All of a sudden, Donald Trump decides he’s not coming to sign the bill,” Representative #TedLieu, the House Democratic vice chair, said at a news conference. “Well, why is that? Did he wake up on the wrong side of the bed?”

#law #USpol #POTUS #MafiaState #extortion